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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 26.07.2014 (E1302)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: EP Flying Experience: 13 years 20 flights (3 flights)	Location Steyning Bowl, Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Fides 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student failed to control glider on launch resulting in an asymmetric collapse. The glider turned and the student landed heavily on one foot.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Date 26.07.2014 (E1337)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 150 hours (20 hours) 250 flights (20 flights)	Location Bradwell Edge, Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint EVO Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot did not take time to establish thermic conditions and was caught out by heavy sink while thermalling. Pilot managed to top land but was then dragged into a stone wall.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Date 26.07.2014 (E1385)	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 42 hours (11 hours) 110 flights (26 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Newbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot mistimed landing flare and stalled glider. Pilot landed heavily and hand hit the ground hard.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 25.07.2014 (E1365)	Pilot Male Age: 25	Location Buchenberg, Fussen, Bavaria, Germany Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Cruiser Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student was carrying out 360 degree turns under radio instruction. Student was in clear view of instructor on landing area but could not be seen from take off. Student had mid-air collision with student hang glider pilot who had just take off and had flown round a spur into the area where paraglider student was doing 360s. There was not time for the paragliding instructor to prevent the collision once the hang glider appeared. Both pilots landed in trees unhurt having successfully deployed their parachutes.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 25.07.2014 (E1349)	Pilot Female Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 450 hours (35 hours) 2000 flights (50 flights)	Location Charbre, Laragne, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had asymmetric collapse while thermalling. The glider cravated resulting in a spiral dive with twisted risers. Pilot deployed parachute but it did not open. Pilot crashed heavily into mountainside.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 23.07.2014 (E1360)	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 41 years 670 hours (13 hours) 1200 flights (15 flights)	Location Bo-Peep, E Firle, Sussex, Alciston, Firle, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne C4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot overshot top landing and attempted to regain height but without success. Pilot made approach for bottom landing but with insufficient airspeed. wing was lifted by thermal and turned glider. Pilot got wings level but too low and landed heavily with speed. Glider nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries

Date 22.07.2014 (E1294)	Pilot Male	Location Big Collin, Northern Ireland, Ballyclare, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Launch Type: Foot	Summary Unqualified and untrained pilot fell2m from harness having failed to re-fasten leg straps after walking back up the hill.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 20.07.2014 (E1288)	Pilot Female Age: 43 Flying Experience: 29 years 190 hours (18 hours) (50 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Blandford Forum, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot mistimed slope landing flare due to perceived fast approach (possibly due to change in wind direction) and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Date 20.07.2014 (E1300)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Pilot pg Flying Experience: 38 years 500 hours (10 hours) 500 flights (10 flights)	Location Model Ridge, Carlton in Cleveland, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach to slope landing and had to abort due to small bushes in approach path. Pilot then dropped suddenly from 2-3m and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine

Date 14.07.2014 (E1278)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 51 years (20 hours) (50 flights)	Location Mendlesham tow field, Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Discus 15 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary 6-8mph 45% cross wind landing, gust/thermal on touchdown, got turned downwind and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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