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All 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 below. This page will also slowly include a growing list of older incident report summaries.

Unfortunately, whilst all our old incident reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field used to determine if it can be made available on our website. As a result around 1,400 old reports now have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can appear here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

In the meantime a full list of all incident reports submitted via the old Euro system and passed for publication is available on our Incident reports Archive 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.

If you want to search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 117 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 29.10.2016 (F11268)	Pilot female Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Catalonia, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot lost control of the paraglider in close proximity to the hillside and impacted the ground sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 23.10.2016 (F11318)	Pilot male Age: 37	Location Lancs, GB Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Jojo Wings Instinct Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paramotor at low altitude.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)
Date 14.10.2016 (F11267)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location Bir, IN Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Tala Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level while thermalling. Pilot was unable to regain control of the glider and deployed his emergency parachute. Parachute had insufficient height to deploy fully and pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries
Date 22.06.2016 (F11194)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Laragne Monteglin, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Evo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary While on day 4 of the UK National Hang Gliding Champs there was a mid-air collision involving two hang glider pilots. One of the pilots involved sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, cervical spine
Date 18.06.2016 (F11192)	Pilot male Age: 42 Flying Experience: 14 years	Location near Brighton, GB Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level and impacted heavily sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, feet, legs
Date 22.03.2016 (F11196)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years	Location Chichester, GB Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron xx Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse at low level.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 18.09.2015 (F11126)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Lake District, GB Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paraglider while in close proximity to fellside, while on cross country flight.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, internal injuries, thorax
Date 31.07.2015 (F11069)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Derbyshire, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)
Date 07.07.2015 (F11120)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: Pilot (Power)	Location Siurana/Girona, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Slalom Launch Type: foot	Summary A paramotor pilot was critically injured upon impact with the ground, and died from his injuries. There were no witnesses to the flight or the impact.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 26.05.2013 (F10729)	Pilot male	Location Shropshire, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot came in for top landing still in prone and on the base bar. Immediately prior to landing the hang glider wing struck the rear of a paraglider pilot who was packing his wing in the landing area. The hang glider crashed and the nose of the glider struck the pilot on the back of his neck.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), cervical spine

Last updated: 18 May 2026

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