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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 19.04.2019 (E10129)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 4000 hours (80 hours)	Location Chillerton, Isle of Wight, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot slope landed but wind shifted pulling the pilot down the slope. Pilot put foot in rabbit hole and fell over.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Date 18.04.2019 (E10132)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Flying Experience: 9 years 50 flights (2 flights)	Location Bo-Peep, Sussex, UK, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot flew too slow on his landing approach. The glider stalled and dropped the left wing. The pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 12.04.2019 (E10339)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years	Location Pandy, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Recently qualified pilot flew into leeside turbulence causing his glider to collapse. Pilot landed in rocks. Pilot was not a member of the local club and the site was classed as members only.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Date 12.04.2019 (E10204)	Pilot Female Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 101 hours (10 hours) 177 flights (15 flights)	Location Primrose Valley,, Filey, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Anakis 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted a top landing at a coastal site but was caught out by rotor turbulence. Glider suffered a frontal collapse and the pilot landed heavily sustaining serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 10.04.2019 (E9955)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Other Wing: N/a	Summary A service centre discovered that the bridle on a Gin Gingo Airlite harness had been sewn into the seem of the harness during manufacture. The seam was unpicked and the bridle released, then the seam repaired.	Injury Unknown

Date 10.04.2019 (E9994)	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 8 years 1 hour 10 flights	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. Ground handling student was dragged spraining his ankle and bruising his ribs.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 10.04.2019 (E9988)	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 6 flights (6 flights)	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Iona Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. This resulted in a student having to make a top landing but was then dragged.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 02.04.2019 (E10300)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 80 hours 127 flights (30 flights)	Location Lijar Levente, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink on landing approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine

Date 02.04.2019 (E9895)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 33 years 940 hours (120 hours) (48 flights)	Location Col du Forclaz, Doussard, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 King Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot's glider displayed parachutal (deep stall) characteristics throughout an SIV course. On the final full stall of the third run of the second day the glider exited with two small cravats. As the pilot turned towards the landing/shore the glider went in to parachutal (deep stall). The glider on this occasion recovered quickly but with the subsequent height loss the pilot only had enough height to do a down wind landing approach with one cravat/big ear still in. To turn into wind would have risked a further stall. As the pilot was running off his excess speed he fell fracturing his arm.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 01.04.2019 (E9838)	Pilot Male Age: 20 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 3 hours (3 hours) 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Pandy, Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring the pilot turned away from the slope too late and collided with the slope.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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