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Incident Reports (Informal)

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:

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).

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 25.04.2002 (B3417)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Shinning Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour159 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following a short xc flight the pilot misjudged his approach into a field clipping the roof of a barn on his final turn into wind. The glider rotated left and then inverted.	Injury Pilot: Sprained left wrist bruised hip

Date 24.04.2002 (B3415)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk. Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Off Piste Discovery Launch Type: Powered Engine: Radne 120	Summary During flight a spring from the exhaust broke from its mounting and fell into the propellor which catapulted it into the sail causing a tear.	Injury Unknown

Date 24.04.2002 (B3416)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Powered	Summary During an early power launch the pilot released the power once airborne and then immediately flared the glider causing the right wing to stall and touch the ground, the glider rotaed about this wing and impacted the ground.	Injury Unknown

Date 21.04.2002 (B3414)	Pilot Male Age: 25	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Sun Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped and fell whilst ground handling the canopy.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to r arm/shoulder.

Date 20.04.2002 (B3411)	Pilot Male Age: 19	Location Barton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During a tow launch the canopy gained 6ft altitude before descending due to lack of tension - as it did so the pilots body rotated resulting in the injury.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to left leg.

Date 20.04.2002 (B3412)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Dynasty Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Flying in turbulent conditions encountered sinking air as he turned away from the ridge. This resulted in him sinking below the ridge and approaching a tree, the pilots attemps to turn away from the tree were too late.	Injury Unknown

Date 20.04.2002 (B3413)	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Darley Mook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Fly 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary During a tandem aerotow launch turbulence caused the weak link to break. The pilot flew a downwind leg followed by an attempt to turn into wind. With insufficient height to complete the turn the pilot landed cross wind, hitting a fence.	Injury Pilot: Sore back

Date 19.04.2002 (B3410)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Olivers Castle, UK Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot became lost during xc flight. Helipcopter approached and circled him. Pilot landed and was met by military police who cautioned him.	Injury Unknown

Date 17.04.2002 (B3409)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot attempted 360 degree turn with insufficient height - impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr both wrists, possible l ankle, bruising etc to face, concussion.

Date 15.04.2002 (B3408)	Pilot Male Age: 41	Location Ruddlers West, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a successful forward inflation the right control was applied for no apparent reason causing the canopy to bank and pull the pilot over.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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