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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.

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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 12.07.2022 (E24691)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 700 hours (120 hours) 900 flights (150 flights)	Location Kandersteg, Kandersteg, Switzerland Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Step Launch Type: Foot	Summary On gliding to the landing field from altitude the pilot underestimated the strength of the valley wind. Pilot lost 900m in 4km in turbulent air resulting in landing in a flood defence clearing between trees. Wing tip caught on a tree causing pilot to turn into the trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.07.2022 (E27754)	Pilot Female Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 60 hours (33 hours) 184 flights (69 flights)	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 9 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot lost control of glider during forward inflation tow launch. Initial launch was off to the right and pilot was unable to fully centralise before becoming airborne. Glider then rotated and collapsed resulting in the pilot falling from approx 6m and landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Pelvis
Date 11.07.2022 (E24623)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years 765 hours (31 hours) 715 flights (38 flights)	Location Vault Bay, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring in light conditions pilot encountered sinking air and could not clear vegetation to make the landing area. Pilot landed in dense hawthorn/ bramble patch requiring rescue by the coastguard.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.07.2022 (E24687)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 4 hours (3 hours) 20 flights (10 flights)	Location Bradwell, Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 29 Launch Type: Foot	Summary After taking off the pilot did not gain height so decided to slope land. Glider was blown over bushes on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.07.2022 (E24715)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 1028 hours (33 hours) 927 flights (22 flights)	Location Clough, Cumbria, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: OZONE DELTA 4	Summary Pilot had near miss with small drone while thermalling.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.07.2022 (E24535)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 85 hours	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Phantom	Summary Pilot turned in lift but too close to the hill. Pilot impacted hill with too much ground speed, landed on feet but fell over.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.07.2022 (E24651)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 2500 hours (50 hours) (40 flights)	Location Ager top take off, Ager, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Very Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Camino Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had frontal collapse while on bar. Glider recovered with cravat and eventually twisted risers and spiral. Pilot deployed parachute, which opened in front and dislocated pilots shoulder. Pilot was able to disable glider and landed safely under parachute.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 08.07.2022 (E24511)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 36 years	Location Hill Farm, Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota2 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Whilst waiting in the queue for a tow launch, pilot was lifted off the ground by an unannounced dust devil. Pilot, who was in his harness, fully kitted up and wearing his helmet, was dumped down 5 metres away.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.07.2022 (E24503)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 14 hours (4 hours) 27 flights (8 flights)	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring pilot was losing height and started to head to the bottom landing. Pilot flew into strong thermal and suffered a 70% collapse exiting. Glider re-inflated, pilot regained control and landed safely in the bottom landing field.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.07.2022 (E24843)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 10 years 380 hours (55 hours) 967 flights (110 flights)	Location Gemona, Gemona, Italy Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered repeated asymmetric collapse then realised his speed bar was jammed fully on on one side. Pilot flew away from hill and used hook knife to cut the speedbar line. Pilot top landed and made a repair.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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