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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.

If you want to search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

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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 28.09.2010 (B4507)	Pilot Male Age: 21	Location Cox Tor, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while being taught by his father who was not an instructor. Pilot flew into hill downwind.	Injury Pilot: Fractures to femur and both humerus.
Date 26.09.2010 (B4505)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was overflown by police helicopter with a height difference of approx 200ft.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.09.2010 (B4506)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn U2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered spin at low level while flying tandem landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Chipped vertebra
Date 21.09.2010 (B4504)	Pilot Male Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Roadster Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Micro	Summary Student attempted to take off with control line wrapped around riser. Powered off and aborted launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.09.2010 (B4502)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: P	Location Dungiven West, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paramania Rev 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to top land due to increasing wind. Touched down but was dragged into boulder.	Injury Pilot: 3 fractured ribs and collapsed lung.
Date 19.09.2010 (B4503)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: CP	Location Otivar, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged height on approach and in bleeding off height encountered severe sink. Pilot hit roadside barrier.	Injury Pilot: Fractured spine
Date 16.09.2010 (B4501)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location St Agnes, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while on approach. Struck rock.	Injury Pilot: Fractured knee
Date 12.09.2010 (B4499)	Pilot Female Age: 26 Rating: Under training	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student grabbed line as glider was caught by wind.	Injury Pilot: Line burn to hand
Date 12.09.2010 (B4500)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location UK	Wing Type Wing: Air Atos with tail	Summary On preparing to launch, pilot noticed glider was difficult to balance and left wing was heavy. Inspection showed karabiner conecting cable to control surface had come apart.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.09.2010 (B4496)	Pilot Female Age: 12 Rating: Under training	Location North Luffenham Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Voyager 42 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Just prior to launch gust lifted and rotated glider and wing tip holder let go. Pilot and passenger fell over.	Injury Pilot: Bruised wrist

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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