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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.

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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 30.03.2002 (B3399)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Mynyad Meid, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following landing the pilot was dragged sideways into a ditch.	Injury Pilot: Broken right hand- 2 metacarpal bones

Date 29.03.2002 (B3396)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Woldham 2, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Prior to tow launch, as tension came full the line the tow release partially failed resulting in the left bridle coming off with the tow line attached to the right bridle only. The launched was aborted when the pilot had reached 10ft. Landed ok.	Injury Unknown

Date 26.03.2002 (B3395)	Pilot Unknown	Location Ashover, Derbyshire, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary 2 PPGs reported flying low over Ashover , Derbyshire. Several captive birds of prey were spooked resulting in one being injured and subsequently put down.	Injury Unknown

Date 25.03.2002 (B3394)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Leadlich, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction on landing resulting in a downwind landing.	Injury Pilot: Broken right anke: fibula; didnt go hospital for 2 days as thought it was just sprained

Date 24.03.2002 (B3393)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Bwlch Y Groes, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ADG Bi - Manta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a tandem flight it was discovered that one of the maillons connecting the riser to the spreader bar was undone and had stretched out of shape by approx 5mm.	Injury Unknown

Date 23.03.2002 (B3391)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Big Fat Repack, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Pilot unable to release parachute from container during big fat repack parachute packing session. Reserve was repacked with the routing of the handle slightly modified - this then proved to be successful.	Injury Unknown

Date 23.03.2002 (B3392)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student fell during forward launch dislocating his knee cap.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated knee cap

Date 17.03.2002 (B3388)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary At 120ft during tow launch the pilot released the line completely from his chest release. He then pushed out causing the glider to stall. During the stall the glider turned out of wind, at 20 ft the pilot stalled the glider again impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: Light bruising

Date 17.03.2002 (B3389)	Pilot Male	Location Horse Leys Farm, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Fr Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot being towed behind land rover usng climbing rope with no weak link or release at either end. Glider drifted off course and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, punctured lung, concussion, dl shoulder.

Date 17.03.2002 (B3390)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Alto Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following launch the pilot to a steeper cliff area in search of stronger lift. The air in this area was quite turbulent. As the pilot turned the glider it caught by a gust and the pilot impacted the cliff with his ankle. He flew to the beach to land.	Injury Pilot: Fr/dl ankle

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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