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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 26.09.2015 (E2732)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: Pilot (hill/winhch/aerotow) Flying Experience: 27 years 80 hours (6 hours) 230 flights (8 flights)	Location Bo Peep, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing U2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary 10 minutes into a soaring flight pilot noticed chest strap and zip pop open. Pilot climbed into uprights and made safe bottom landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.09.2015 (E2779)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 4 hours (4 hours) 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Whitewool, East Meon, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Very Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse while at low level and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.09.2015 (E2731)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilots had mid-air collision while soaring and thermalling on busy ridge. One of the pilots suffered an asymmetric collapse and spiralled into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 22.09.2015 (E2719)	Pilot Female Age: 30 Rating: Under EP Instruction Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Quatro Mohones, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student had good take off while attempting a 'low hop' flight but as she became airborne she applied excessive brake. She was instructed to 'ease off' the brakes but instead released them immediately resulting in a dive towards the ground and subsequent heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 19.09.2015 (E2715)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 hours (20 hours) 50 flights	Location Firle, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While struggling to get feet into new pod harness, pilot lost bearings and flew too close to the slope. Pilot landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.09.2015 (E2818)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 26 years 2500 hours (20 hours) (12 flights)	Location Marston Airfield, Marston Trussel, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Snake (not xx) Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level while attempting a high banked turn during slalom practice. During the manoeuvre the pilot noticed the left brake handle had become detached from the brake lines. The pilot was unable to regain control and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 19.09.2015 (E2713)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 10 hours	Location Catacol, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot	Summary Paraglider pilots had mid-air collision while soaring a ridge on the Isle of Arran. One pilot deployed his parachute and landed safely, the other impacted with the cliff and sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 19.09.2015 (E2710)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 50 hours (3 hours) 100 flights (20 flights)	Location South Cliffs, Aberystwyth, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Fides 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While on a top to bottom flight a helicopter passed within 100m horizontally and 30m vertically of paraglider pilot. Paraglider turned away from helicopter and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.09.2015 (E2708)	Pilot Female Rating: Trainee Flying Experience: 11 years 17 flights (17 flights)	Location City Airport & Heliport Manchester, Manchester, UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Waterbird M Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary At some point between a first and second flight one of the harness connectors had become detached. On laughing the pilot went off to one side and the launch was aborted. Pilot landed heavily from 3m.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Thoracic Spine
Date 19.09.2015 (E2711)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 34 years 1442 hours (50 hours)	Location Latrigg, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air ION 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While flying tandem, glider suffered asymmetric collapse at low level. Pilot was unable to recover before impacting slope. Passenger landed on pilot, both unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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