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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 07.07.2013 (E780)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years	Location Cairnwell, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot set up for reverse launch on rocky hillside. As he inflated the glider a wingtip snagged on the rocks and the glider was lifted by a thermal gust. The pilot lost control and was lifted and crashed down repeatedly before coming to rest in an unconscious state. He was attended by other pilots.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 05.07.2013 (E784)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was seen to be flying with excessive brake throughout his flight. Eventually landed in a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 05.07.2013 (E783)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Strong	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was flying with excessive brake and then suffered asymmetric collapse. Glider recovered from collapse but then stalled to ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 02.07.2013 (E802)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 500 hours	Location Azinha, Teixoso, Portugal Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to glide to the upwind side of a ridge to find a thermal but was hit by sink before getting over the ridge. This put the pilot on the lee side of the ridge. Pilot tried to escape but suffered 60%asymmetric collapse and was turned into the ground from about 15m.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 30.06.2013 (E792)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 2 hours	Location Tehidy Barton, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary During tow launch pilot allowed glider to lift off too early. It then started to drift and the pilot did not correct the turn. Winch backed off and glider nosed in. Pilot did not let go resulting in broken arm.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 18.06.2013 (E777)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Flying Experience: 1 hour	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student told to fly into wind for landing by instructor but elected to do one more figure 8. Student landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine

Date 16.06.2013 (E775)	Pilot Male Age: 48	Location Firle, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Cruiser 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student fell over while ground handling.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 16.06.2013 (E774)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 250 hours 500 flights	Location Borso del Grappa, Italy Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approached and landed in lee of buildings. Sunk out and landed on parked car.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 15.06.2013 (E788)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years 350 hours	Location Panettone, Bassano del Grappa, Italy Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot ran out of landing area due to 'S' turn approach and tried to 'mush' glider in to land. Due to lack of airspeed the glider stalled from approx 5m. The pilot landed heavily on his back.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 10.06.2013 (E776)	Pilot Male Age: 57	Location Steyning Bowl, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Fides Launch Type: Foot	Summary While on first inflation walk forwards the student lifted his legs and came down on his backside. Student bent finger.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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