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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 22.03.2003 (B3596)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Big Collin, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.03.2003 (B3597)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: QUATRX Wndtech Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Poss, fracture vertebrae
Date 21.03.2003 (B3595)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location Tailbridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Santana Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Lowerback
Date 16.03.2003 (B3594)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Selston, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Powered Engine: Rad, mxl	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.03.2003 (B3593)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 02.03.2003 (B3591)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Telegraph Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.03.2003 (B3592)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: SKY PARAGLIDERS Lift Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Spiral oblique fracture 5th metacarpal left hand.
Date 16.02.2003 (B3590)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Nont Saras, East Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Soroco Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Spinal fracture
Date 14.02.2003 (B3589)	Pilot Female Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Cuts on face
Date 09.02.2003 (B3587)	Pilot Female Age: 27 Rating: Novice	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Suspected twisted ankle

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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