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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 23.01.2016 (E2972)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 50 hours (25 hours) 91 flights (45 flights)	Location Bello Horizonte, Piedechinche, Colombia Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider on launch and was pendulumed back into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 21.01.2016 (E2966)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Crete road west, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Speedflyer/Miniwing Wing: Ozone Firefly2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered large collapse and was unable to regain control of the glider. Pilot impacted slope heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 16.01.2016 (E2964)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 hours (7 hours) 28 flights	Location MamTor, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paraglider while ridge soaring.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.01.2016 (E2977)	Pilot Female Age: 56 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 21 hours (21 hours) 45 flights (45 flights)	Location Macher, Lanzarote, Macher, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Strong, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was looking to bottom land when she encountered severe thermic turbulence. Pilot landed heavily from approx 8m.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 27.12.2015 (E2937)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years	Location South Barrule, Castletown, Isle Of Man Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 7 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Inexperienced pilot launched from hillside and allowed glider to drift over the top into lee side rotor. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 22.11.2015 (E2999)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 22 years 700 hours (20 hours) (20 flights)	Location Bishopstone cliffs, Herne Bay, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening winds while coastal soaring. Pilot was on full speedbar when glider suffered an asymmetric collapse. Glider rotated and pilot struck hill in standing position.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 03.11.2015 (E2899)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 500 hours (45 hours) 490 flights (40 flights)	Location Taucho, Adeje, Tenerife, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sports 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink when attempting to thermal close to rocky spine. Pilot impacted hard.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 01.11.2015 (E8750)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 300 hours (70 hours) 300 flights (70 flights)	Location Private field, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron XX Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot came in to land in nil wind and came in on a fast approach and caught foot on a grass clump, which twisted his leg breaking it just above the boot. Pilot drove himself to hospital. Leg in plaster for 6 weeks.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 27.10.2015 (E4303)	Pilot Female Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 28 years 2000 hours (50 hours) 500 flights (35 flights)	Location Billing, Himachal Pradesh, India, Bir, India Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Icepeak 7 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered a cascade collapse incident while flying in a competition in India. The pilot was unable to recover the glider despite stalling twice in an attempt to 'reset' the wing. Pilot landed heavily in a 'tail slide'. Subsequent inspection showed the brake lines had shrunk by 16cm after less than 50 hours. This resulted in brake being applied inadvertently when full bar was applied.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 20.10.2015 (E2828)	Pilot Male Age: 73 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years	Location Monks Down, Near Shaftesbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with tandem glider while ridge soaring.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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