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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 22.03.2016 (E3080)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 34 years	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was involved in a near miss while thermalling. Other pilot involved refused to accept there had been an issue.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.03.2016 (E3462)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years	Location Selsey, Chichester, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron xx Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse at low level.	Injury Pilot: Fatal, Internal Injuries
Date 20.03.2016 (E3065)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 500 hours (5 hours) 800 flights (8 flights)	Location Model Ridge, Middlesbrough, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed to fix issue with harness. On relaunching the pilot forgot to do hang check and failed to notice he had not fastened his chest buckles. Pilot was able to fasten then in flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.03.2016 (E3069)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 135 hours (11 hours) 500 flights (45 flights)	Location Minster, Minster, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Raven Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged the wind strength on launch and was unable to penetrate into wind. Pilot was blown back and stalled into bramble bushes.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.03.2016 (E3054)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P Flying Experience: 90 hours (10 hours) (14 flights)	Location Traprain Law, East Lothian, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse on take off, side impact into rocks.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 13.03.2016 (E3045)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 180 hours (24 hours) 231 flights (15 flights)	Location Pandy, Abergavenny SE Wales, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Puma Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was on his 2nd flight on high a performance glider. Light winds in landing field. The pilot misjudged his flare and the glider nosed in. Pilot swung through frame and dislocated shoulder. Minor glider damage	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 13.03.2016 (E3086)	Pilot Male Age: 28 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Nigel's, Mirleft area, Morocco Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ground handling the student stepped back and inadvertently took off. On leaving the ground the student turned the wrong way causing the risers to twist. The glider turned and crashed just below take off.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 13.03.2016 (E3055)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 37 years 200 hours (6 hours) (28 flights)	Location Treak Cliff, Castleton, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On take off pilot accidentally, and without realising, applied full speed bar while getting feet into pod harness. Approx 30 seconds into the flight the glider suffered a symmetric collapse at low level. Pilot impacted heavily on his side.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 11.03.2016 (E3047)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Flying Experience: 11 years 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Swanborough, Kingston near Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student did not flare on landing and landed heavily twisting ankle.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 06.03.2016 (E3033)	Pilot Female Age: 34 Flying Experience: 11 years 1 hour (1 hour) 32 flights (32 flights)	Location Firle, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD WASP Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student launched glider and was lifted off and into the instructor. The instructor was knocked over dislocating his shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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