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Incident Reports (EURO)

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:

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 15.05.2015 (E1878)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years 170 hours (14 hours) 250 flights (12 flights)	Location Worcestershire Beacon, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn Blacklight Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off and immediately noticed a pronounced 'right turn' in the wing. Unable to rectify the problem and concerned about the stability of the wing, the pilot deployed his parachute. Having landed safely the pilot discovered a knot in the upper lines on the right side of the glider. He also noticed that both brake lines had become severely twisted, despite having anti-twist swivels fitted. He suspects this may have contributed to the incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 10.05.2015 (E1862)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 303 hours (20 hours) 1100 flights (60 flights)	Location Newhaven cliff, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Envy II Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit cliff top whilst soaring too low. Fall down cliff arrested by wing snagging on rocks.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 10.05.2015 (E1868)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 19 years (4 hours) (3 flights)	Location Newhaven Cliffs, Newhaven Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: Flight Design Ghostbuster Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged his approach due to concerns about the number of paragliders in the area. Pilot eventually made crosswind approach but with more downwind component than expected. Pilot attempted to run off speed but basebar struck the ground and the glider flipped over.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 09.05.2015 (E2940)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years	Location Highlands, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alpina 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary After flying with Big Ears and speed bar for several minutes the pilot discovered that on attempting to release the big ears, the upper cascade outer lines had knotted up. The pilot could not release the knots but landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 04.05.2015 (E1879)	Pilot Male Rating: P Flying Experience: 777 hours (7 hours) 2810 flights (20 flights)	Location Strete, Strete, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot got to end of beat on a wooded, coastal cliff and, knowing there was a glider behind him, shouted "turn", expecting the other pilot to react. Pilot found himself on a head-on course and so turned tightly causing the glider to spin. Pilot landed in trees	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 27.04.2015 (E1845)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 524 hours (60 hours) 1291 flights (101 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Combe, Hampshire (near Newbury), UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot dropped out of thermal while low over trees. Turned away but stabile line caught branch and turned pilot into another tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 26.04.2015 (E1848)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 133 hours (3 hours) (5 flights)	Location Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Strong, Front Influence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to return to ridge having gone over the back. Pilot realised he was not going to make it and turned downwind to try and escape any turbulence. Pilot encountered turbulence on final approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 23.04.2015 (E1831)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Bo Peep, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot loses control of his glider at low level and impacts heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.04.2015 (E1883)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 75 hours 159 flights	Location Mam Tor, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During a pre-flight check, pilot noticed that harness buckle had failed. The spring return on one of the locking clips on the buckle failed, preventing the buckle from fully closing and locking.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.04.2015 (E1830)	Pilot Female Flying Experience: 12 years	Location Latrigg, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student over flew landing area and on approach flew into a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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