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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 02.07.2011 (B4569)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Wardon Bay, UK Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Attis 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height attempting to get into harness. Pilot struck cliff.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 01.07.2011 (B4565)	Pilot Unknown	Location Challow Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Nucleon Launch Type: Powered Engine: Polish, Vitorazzi Monster	Summary Pilot made hesitant launch under power and attempted to abort but was too low to get feet under body. Pilot fell forward and finger struck prop.	Injury Pilot: Lacerated fingers
Date 01.07.2011 (B4566)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location White Horse, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revo 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bulldog, Spirit Polini	Summary During test flight of students equipment, instructor witnessed riser to line connector open up. Pilot landed safely. The connector was found to be poor quality.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.06.2011 (B4564)	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew through strong thermal on top to bottom flight and suffered symmetric front collapse. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Winded
Date 22.06.2011 (B4563)	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Plan Fait, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening wind and flew into turbulent air. Crashed heavily into trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, fr sternum and rib.
Date 17.06.2011 (B4562)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Black Knowe Head, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered stall while descending through heavy rain in strong, gusty conditions. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 14.06.2011 (B4560)	Pilot Female Age: 50 Rating: AP	Location Mere, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider after asymmetric collapse and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 14.06.2011 (B4561)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Druim na Creige, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot took off in windy conditions and found he was unable to penetrate as expected. Was blown back into turbulent air and landed on wall. PLF saved further injury.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis
Date 04.06.2011 (B4559)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Under training	Location Skeagh, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot inflated glider asymmetrically and was pulled over onto shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder and chipped bone.
Date 01.06.2011 (B4558)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric while at low level and impacted hard. Conditions had become thermic and turbulent.	Injury Pilot: Fr vetrbrae, fr femur and fr ribs.

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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