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All incident reports submitted via the old pan Europe incident reporting system, that had been approved for publication prior to 21 January 2026, can be found below.

Incident reports submitted via the new FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system after 21 January 2026 that have been approved for publication can be found on our FIDA Incident reports page

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

Incident reports for all wing types are displayed below in summary form.

The BHPA incident reports database is fully searchable. To refine your search you can specify a particular wing type and select "or" or "and". For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, for best search results select paraglider from the drop down list and the "and" option.

If you want to search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

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If known, total hours and total flights flown are displayed below together with hours and flights flown in the past six months, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 3356 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 30.05.2003 (B3649)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured wrist and elbow and also bruised spine.
Date 29.05.2003 (B3646)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Larange, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Sentra Large. Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr femur
Date 28.05.2003 (B3645)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Nant Y Moel, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Astral Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Severe bruising to muscles of lower spine. compressed vertebra.
Date 27.05.2003 (B3644)	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: P	Location Babadag (Olu Deniz) Turkey, Turkey	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.05.2003 (B3642)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Haresfield, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 4	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.05.2003 (B3643)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Haresfield, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Confidance	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.05.2003 (B3641)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Bedlinog, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured tibia and fibula open
Date 22.05.2003 (B3640)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.05.2003 (B3634)	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Cold Norton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Classic Launch Type: Powered Engine: Wasp	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken leg cut on head, burns on back.
Date 15.05.2003 (B3635)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Presta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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