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All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication before it was shut down, can be found below.

Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system, can be found on our FIDA Incident Reports page

Summaries of incident reports are available 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 flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, 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 16.12.2016 (E4122)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 202 hours (62 hours) 297 flights (46 flights)	Location Slimbridge sports field, Slimbridge, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Dudek Hadron XX Launch Type: Foot	Summary While making 'dry run' approach in low light conditions, the pilot failed to see power lines that were partially hidden along a line of trees surrounding the chosen field. Pilot struck the power lines and sustained minor injuries.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 21.11.2016 (E4085)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 28 years 600 hours (57 hours) 1000 flights (86 flights)	Location Tap o' Noth - bottom landing, Rhynie, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered Engine: Zenith	Summary Shortly after take-off the pilot suffered a prop failure. With no apparent impact the prop was inspected and found to have delaminated.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 21.11.2016 (E4092)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 60 hours (30 hours)	Location Nigels, Aglou / Mirleft, Morocco Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas XA Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot decided to abort launch at the very last moment, by full application of control handles in order to stall wing. Could not stop and fell from front of the launch approx 5ft onto mountainside. Was assisted in collecting wing and climbing back onto launch.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 17.11.2016 (E4086)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 100 hours	Location Otiva, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to reverse launch but was lifted off feet and the risers became twisted. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 12.11.2016 (E4027)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 4 hours (4 hours) 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Dickiedanda, Pokhara, Nepal Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot twisted ankle on landing in turbulent conditions.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 12.11.2016 (E4080)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Flying Experience: 3 hours (1 hour) 13 flights (1 flight)	Location Diki Danada, Pokhara, Nepal Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student lost altitude while ridge soaring and got too close to the trees. Pilot landed safely on slope having found gap in the trees. Glider became caught on trees but was undamaged.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.11.2016 (E4031)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: Pilot Power Flying Experience: 15 years 300 hours (80 hours) 400 flights (100 flights)	Location Waldringfield, Ipswich, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Niviuk Dobermann 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot flew through turbulent air while practising a competition task. Glider suffered a collapse while travelling at approx 80kph and became cravatted. Pilot deployed emergency parachute and deployment bag damaged prop, but landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 11.11.2016 (E4058)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 63 hours (40 hours) 126 flights (80 flights)	Location Ballard Down, Swanage, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Base Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot applied excessive control while turning in to wind for landing due to being lower than anticipated. Glider suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine
Date 11.11.2016 (E4035)	Pilot Female Rating: P	Location Hill Farm, Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Acent Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Tow release failed to release on the top of tow, winch operator guillotined line, pilot landed safely with line attached. On inspection the release loop cord was located beyond the release pin attachedment eye, as the width of the pin attachemnt eye is wider than the pin the pin could not be pulled out when under load.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.11.2016 (E3997)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Flying Experience: 10 years 3 hours (3 hours) 17 flights (17 flights)	Location Sirkot, Walling, Nepal Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Koyot 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Nepalese Pilot took off while on an IPPI thermal training course. He flew for approximately ten minutes before being seen in a locked in spiral dive. The pilot did not recover from the spiral dive and crashed.	Injury Pilot: Fatal

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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