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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:

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• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
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• Powered PG
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• 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 23.05.2016 (E3295)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Flying Experience: 10 years 1 hour (1 hour) 8 flights (8 flights)	Location Lowca, Whitehaven, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student misjudged approach and caught foot on wall before turning in to landing area.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 22.05.2016 (E3277)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P Flying Experience: 200 hours (37 hours) 230 flights (18 flights)	Location Durdle Door, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas Launch Type: Foot	Summary While concentrating on another pilot the incident pilot found himself in a head-on situation with another paraglider. Both pilots turned left in an attempt to avoid the collision.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.05.2016 (E3314)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 90 hours 100 flights	Location Ringstead, Near Weymouth, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paraglider while coastal soaring and deployed his emergency parachute. Visibility was not perfect due to thin, low cloud.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.05.2016 (E3366)	Pilot Male	Location Warren Barn Farm, Woldingham, Surrey, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent Launch Type: Foot	Summary A pilot under training failed to control the glider during a forward launch and was dragged, incurring injury.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 17.05.2016 (E3342)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location St Hilaire de Touvet, Grenoble, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot made a ramp launch in thermic conditions with a cross wind. During the launch sequence the cross wind lifted the right wing tip causing the glider to turn left back towards the mountainside, where it impacted young trees, causing light damage to the glider.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.05.2016 (E3340)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 22 years 110 hours (10 hours) 230 flights (14 flights)	Location Westbury, Wiltshire, Nr Warminster, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot turned towards the hill in moderate thermic conditions and experienced a large asymmetric deflation and cravat in close proximity to the hill, leading to a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 14.05.2016 (E3224)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 1000 hours (6 hours) 3000 flights (8 flights)	Location Fforest fields, Builth wells, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Antea Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while on approach to landing. Glider dived unexpectedly and pilot landed on a tent. Further inspection showed A lines had failed on one side.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine
Date 14.05.2016 (E3355)	Pilot Rating: P Flying Experience: 1000 hours (50 hours) 1000 flights (50 flights)	Location Hundred House, Brecon, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On landing approach in moderate thermic conditions the pilot induced a spin below a height at which the pilot could recover normal flight. This led to a heavy impact and subsequent injury.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 12.05.2016 (E3223)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 30 hours	Location Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz z5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was performing full stalls during SIV training. Successful reserve deployment after twists. Beamer 2 deployed quickly with no twists. Pilot pulled in paraglider (no quick outs), then steered and landed on beach. Pilot had not read reserve manual and put in excessive steering inputs creating a slightly unstable (swinging) descent, but landed with a roll and was unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.05.2016 (E3205)	Pilot Male Age: 68 5 flights	Location Quattro, Algodonalis, Spain Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student used too much brake on launch. His feet left the ground momentarily before coming back down where student twisted ankle.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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