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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.

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

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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 10.10.2016 (E3926)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years 55 hours (31 hours) 100 flights (44 flights)	Location Stroud, Glos, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Roadster 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Air Conception, Ultra 130	Summary Paramotor pilot posted Airprox having had an encounter with a biplane that appeared to be involved in a display with two balloons. Pilot did not realise the biplane was a full sized manned aircraft, having initially thought it was a drone.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.10.2016 (E3948)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 11 years 5 hours (2 hours) 10 flights (5 flights)	Location Herne Bay, Herne Bay, Kent, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While coastal soaring the pilot was blown back into rotor turbulence by strengthening wind.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 09.10.2016 (E3924)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 500 hours (7 hours) 700 flights (9 flights)	Location Mundsley, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening winds and was blown back into a village. While being blown back, pilot pushed off house chimney to avoid standing on roof before crashing through a telephone line and landing in conifers.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 03.10.2016 (E4430)	Pilot Male Age: 18 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years 76 hours (20 hours)	Location Surrey, Westerham/Oxted, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania GTS Launch Type: Powered Engine: ParaJet, Zenith	Summary Pilot lost control shortly after launch when he discovered a control line was wrapped around one riser. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 02.10.2016 (E3921)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 41 years 2000 hours (25 hours) 500 flights (20 flights)	Location Model ridge, Stokesley, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Foot	Summary Experienced pilot I chose to test fly the glider for a beginner. On rigging pilot noticed the compression struts were not totally tight but failed to appreciate that with the particular design if loose they could actually detach. The starboard side detached as the glider came under load and was found inside the sail. The resultant turn was unrecoverable and the glider turned and cartwheeled. Pilot chose to keep hold of the uprights rather than take any head impact. This resulted in both broken upper arms.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 02.10.2016 (E3995)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years	Location Oludeniz, Turkey	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During routine kit inspection before start of SIV, reserve deployment failure identified. Damage to harness had most likely happened during accident the previous year. Reserve retaining flap had ripped and reserve had fallen through the hole making deployment impossible. Reserve set up and internal parts of the harness had not been inspected since the accident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.10.2016 (E3954)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 36 years	Location Cow Close Fell, Yorkshire Dales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Tattoo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider while soaring in weak conditions. Pilot crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 01.10.2016 (E3904)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 hours 36 flights	Location Not applicable, Lewes, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Not APPLICABLE	Summary On repacking parachute to new harness pilot found the chute would not deploy without pulling the velcro apart. Also had loose webbing to webbing connection.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.09.2016 (E3906)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Hill Flying Experience: 11 years 11 hours	Location Bornos, Andalucia, Spain Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spyder Launch Type: Powered Engine: Miniplane, Top 80	Summary Student attempted initial launch run but stopped immediately due to strained calf.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 23.09.2016 (E4947)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Flying Experience: 10 years 16 hours (12 hours) 19 flights (15 flights)	Location Institute gravel car park, Manilva, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Roadster 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered engine failure after 15 minutes but had height to return to take-off. Take-off area was sloping carpark and pilot was forced to land crosswind. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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