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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 02.11.2016 (E3992)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 197 hours (59 hours) 198 flights (49 flights)	Location Clough Head, Keswick, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 9 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot received glider back from repair centre to find that a proportion of the brake cascade had not been reconnected.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.10.2016 (E3975)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 200 hours (10 hours) 100 flights (20 flights)	Location Fransham, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z4 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Paraglider pilot winched up with excessive force during a competition. Pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 29.10.2016 (E4006)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: Pilot Power Flying Experience: 17 years 505 hours (59 hours) 700 flights (65 flights)	Location Private Field, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Force 2 Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot stalled wing while turning against the torque at low level in attempt to avoid overflying neighbours. Pilot managed to kill engine before heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 29.10.2016 (E4112)	Pilot Female Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 70 hours	Location Ager, Catalonia, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	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, Internal Injuries
Date 23.10.2016 (E4356)	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Pilling, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Jojo Wings Instinct Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paramotor at low altitude.	Injury Pilot: Fatal
Date 22.10.2016 (E3958)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 15 hours (20 hours) 85 flights (35 flights)	Location Bo peep, Selmeston, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Yeti Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land close to a barbwire fence. Speedbar caught on fence then glider fell on fence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.10.2016 (E4082)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 26 years	Location Villebois Lavallette, Dordogne, France	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Koch Winch Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary During a routine inspection of the weak link components of a twin drum Koch winch it was found that the aluminium cases that house the aluminium weak links had their ends burred over such that the link would not slide out of the housing. This rendered the weak link inoperative and the force required to break it would have been considerably more than the certified intended force.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 19.10.2016 (E4081)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP	Location Devils dyke, Brighton, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Seedwings Space	Summary Pilot was struggling to attach nose wires. It transpired that the glider had been in a minor crash on landing and the replaced uprights were too long. The uprights were subsequently changed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.10.2016 (E3943)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 170 hours (3 hours) (5 flights)	Location Milk Hill, Pewsey, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing T2C Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was flying slowly to maximise lift causing the wing to stall when turning into approach base leg. Glider landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.10.2016 (E4096)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location 360, Bir, India Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	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, Head Injuries

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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