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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 15.03.2014 (E957)	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: P Flying Experience: 51 years 1000 hours (12 hours) 1000 flights (40 flights)	Location Montellano, Montellano, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Raven Launch Type: Foot	Summary Flying in crowded conditions pilot suffered a symmetric collapse. Combination of wake turbulence and thermic turbulence suspected. Pilot was concerned that he focused on recovering glider and not at available height and parachute deployment.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.03.2014 (E872)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 4 flights (4 flights)	Location The Warren, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach height and over flew landing area. Pilot landed in the sea but was able to get away from his glider immediately.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.03.2014 (E932)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 25 hours (4 hours) 58 flights (6 flights)	Location Beer Head, Dorset Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot made approach with insufficient height and from wrong direction in prevailing conditions. Got caught in rotor and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 04.03.2014 (E973)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 28 years 210 hours (50 hours) 100 flights (25 flights)	Location Valle de Bravo, Mexico City, Mexico Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Very Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah Evo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot crashed into hedge having ran out of landing options attempting to maximise distance in a competition. Pilot had assumed he would reach lift coming from a ridge but the lift was too violent to utilise.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 01.03.2014 (E868)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 118 hours (5 hours) 36 flights (6 flights)	Location Barton on Sea, New Milton, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off with a twisted brake line. He attempted to get height to sort it out but sunk out and crashing on to a ledge.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Thoracic Spine
Date 01.03.2014 (E865)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Pilot hill,tow,aerotow,power and air experience instructor dual aerotow Flying Experience: 19 years 350 hours (30 hours) 200 flights (10 flights)	Location Sywell Aerodrome, Sywell (northampton), UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills wings Talon 150 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary While undergoing a trolly launch the glider wheel became caught on the trolly. The glider slewed off to one side and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries
Date 01.03.2014 (E864)	Pilot Female Rating: Pilot (Hill+Tow) Flying Experience: 350 hours (10 hours) 200 flights (14 flights)	Location Stanage, Peak District Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot narrowly avoided a midair collision while soaring in light conditions on a busy ridge.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.03.2014 (E859)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 70 hours (13 hours) 51 flights (17 flights)	Location Stannage Edge, Derbyshire Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While soaring on a busy ridge the pilot found himself in a situation where he had to take rapid evasive action to avoid a collision with another paraglider. Both pilots took avoiding action and narrowly missed a collision.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.03.2014 (E855)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 155 hours (15 hours) 218 flights (11 flights)	Location Stanage, Sheffield, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring at approx 25m AGL two gliders were heading in the same direction down the ridge. One slightly in front and lower than the other. At the end of the beat the lower, lead glider turned and was pushed out from the ridge by the terrain. The gliders narrowly missed each other.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.02.2014 (E741)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 6 flights (6 flights)	Location Eyam edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Muse 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student applied excessive brake on landing and reversed into dry stone wall.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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