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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 12.06.2002 (B3447)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Dune De Pyla, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot caught in venturi effect whilst ridge soaring. He bagan to drift backwards over the ridge and collided with a tree injuring his arm.	Injury Pilot: Broken arm/ elbow la teste - casualty in bordeaux- france
Date 08.06.2002 (B3444)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Newhaven Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Oxygen Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During wingovers canopy collapsed then recovered violently breaking several lines. Pilot deployed parachute.	Injury Pilot: Cut through left eyebrow, bruises, shock and damaged ego!
Date 08.06.2002 (B3445)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Hive Beach, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Alto Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flying coastal ridge misjudged wind strength and direction and was unable to fly back to his launch point. He attemptted to top land the cliff site but flew into turbulent air behind the ridge, causing his glider to drop.	Injury Pilot: Bumps and bruises
Date 08.06.2002 (B3446)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Hillend, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched into turbulent conditions resulting in the canopy pitching forward and backwards and finally entering a 180 degree spin. With insufficient height to recover the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to left shin & impact to small of back
Date 04.06.2002 (B3441)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following launch the pilot noticed that the right control line was looped around another line. The pilot was able to slope land.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.06.2002 (B3442)	Pilot Male Age: 27	Location Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary Report received from AAIB of hang glider crash.	Injury Pilot: Uspecified
Date 04.06.2002 (B3443)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Scirocco Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary The pilot followed ridge to a position in which the ridge and wind direction were almost parallel. As he was unable to penetrate back upwind the pilot attempted to land on a small grassy area, turbulence led to a frontal collapse pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: Cuts, bruises, muscle & ligament damage, spine trauma ambulance to a & e aberistwith
Date 01.06.2002 (B3439)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Malaku Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During landing the canopys wing tip fell onto a pilot. The pilot then noticed a line trapped in the Brummel hook on the speed system. The line had been damaged by the hook. The diameter of the gap in the hooks was smaller than line diameter.	Injury Unknown
Date 01.06.2002 (B3440)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Mont Sarha, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Atos Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Illegible - can only glean that pilot misjudged landing approach which resulted in a crash.	Injury Pilot: Broken ulnar- l cracked humerus- r ambulance to huddersfield hospital
Date 31.05.2002 (B3436)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Dynasty Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Three pilots on converging flight paths non of them took appropriate avoiding action resulting in them narrowley missing each other.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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