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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 18.07.2016 (E3560)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Flying Experience: 12 years 100 hours	Location Walworth Road Recreation Ground, Andover, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution3 Launch Type: Powered	Summary Paramotor pilots were training in a NOTAM'd area and were thermalling with engines off. Military C130 passed between two pilots, apparently having not seen them. Pilots landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.07.2016 (E3632)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 415 hours (40 hours) 1200 flights (50 flights)	Location La Lastra, Piedrahita, Spain Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 60m while attempting to land in gusty, strong wind conditions. Pilot was blown back and landed between trees.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 17.07.2016 (E3594)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 1500 hours (50 hours) 1000 flights (30 flights)	Location Manteigas, Manteigas, Portugal Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot failed to carry out adequate pre-flight-check and launched with tangled lines. Glider turned quickly to right and pilot struck head on rocks and tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.07.2016 (E3566)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 50 years	Location Ringstead, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: AIR ATOS Launch Type: Foot	Summary Wind dropped on launch causing glider to drop in to long grass, which caught on base bar. Glider nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2016 (E3543)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 70 hours (9 hours) 205 flights (28 flights)	Location Tailbridge, Cumbria, Kirkby Stephen, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary A pilot flying on a site he had flown on numerous previous occasions encountered unexpected sinking air when making a top landing in a north westerly wind, and impacted the ground hard, causing injury.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 12.07.2016 (E3567)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 223 hours (9 hours) 1691 flights (70 flights)	Location Paluknys tow field, Paluknys, Vilnius, Lithuania Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 3 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot was under tow is slight crosswind. While applying corrective control the tension increased causing the glider to stall and rotate. Glider dived towards the ground, still under tension. Eventually tension was released and the glider regained near level flight. Pilot landed heavily. No weak link in system.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 10.07.2016 (E3513)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 22 years 150 hours	Location Chabre, Laragne Monteglin, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot left the turn into wind late and landed approx 8m from a main road and parallel to it. Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on finals. Turbulence from passing traffic could have been a contributing factor.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 06.07.2016 (E3495)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 400 hours (40 hours)	Location Frocester, Stroud, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was flying in light thermic conditions and encountered sinking air over an area of trees. The pilot collided with a tree and escaped unhurt as he was restrained from hitting the ground by the wing coming to rest in the tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 03.07.2016 (E3614)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 180 hours (1 hour) 420 flights (2 flights)	Location Grand Bornand, Grand Bornand, France Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot underestimated strength of valley wind and left turn in to final approach too late. Pilot collided with house roof.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 03.07.2016 (E3693)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 100 hours (26 hours) 269 flights (55 flights)	Location Fort st Vincent (landing field), Fort St Vincent, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Glider spun and dumped pilot on his back as he attempted to land in a small clearing in forest in thermic conditions.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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