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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 14.07.2018 (E7307)	Pilot Male Age: 18	Location South Cerney, Cirencester, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Other	Summary Whilst learning PLF student vigorously threw himself to the floor landing heavily on right shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 12.07.2018 (E9176)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years	Location St Agnes, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Peak 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On exiting a spiral in breezy conditions, pilot flew through own wake turbulence causing glider to enter a stall. Due to brakes being shortened by previous owner the glider would not recover from the stall.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 12.07.2018 (E8747)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 120 hours (57 hours) 246 flights (84 flights)	Location Planpraz, Chamonix, France Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was flying along the valley side in thermic conditions and suffered an asymmetric collapse. The glider rapidly entered a spiral with twisted risers and the pilot blacked out. Pilot regained consciousness in time to deploy parachute landing 30m up in the trees. Pilot activated Echo112 App from phone and was rescued safely.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries
Date 12.07.2018 (E7304)	Pilot Male Rating: Unknown	Location Weybourne, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider while cliff soaring. Pilot impacted cliff halfway down and ended up on the beach below.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 12.07.2018 (E7301)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 2 hours (1 hour) 24 flights (11 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 Pilot had insufficient height to make official landing field and in an attempt to land in an adjacent field he caught the glider on a tree while on final approach. Pilot landed safely but glider landed on the tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2018 (E7310)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Flying Experience: 8 years 17 flights	Location Talybont East, South Wales, Talybont, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Speedflyer/Miniwing Wing: Ozone Firefly 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student on day 4 of speedflying course failed to turn into wind on final approach. Student crashed into trees but was unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.07.2018 (E10231)	Pilot Female Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 14 hours (10 hours) 45 flights (30 flights)	Location Pontlottyn, Pontlottyn, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had been turning 360 in a thermal above the hill but not gaining enough height to continue. On pulling forwards to fly to the front of the hill again pilot inputed to turn left at the front of the hill with too much brake causing the glider to spin and resulting in the pilot impacting with the brow of the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thoracic Spine
Date 10.07.2018 (E7235)	Pilot Female Rating: CP	Location Pontlottyn, Heads of the Valleys/ Merthyr Tydfil, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot appeared to enter spiral dive while attempting to thermal. Glider then suffered an asymmetric collapse and pilot crashed onto the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 10.07.2018 (E7247)	Pilot Male Age: 39 5 flights (5 flights)	Location Hay Bluff (NE), Hay-on-Wye, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student allowed glider to go off to one side while attempting a reverse launch. Student was pulled to the side and stepped awkwardly on a tussock damaging his ankle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 09.07.2018 (E7241)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 3 hours 7 flights (2 flights)	Location Hay Bluff, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged distance from the ridge and failed to turn away resulting in pilot colliding with the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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