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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 18.06.2010 (B4458)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Air Atos 14.5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On approach glider hit by thermal which turned glider towards trees. Wing struck tree causing glider to turn and pitch down. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010 (B4454)	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: CP	Location Treak Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst ridge soaring on a thermic day, pilot heard contact with his wing. Had made contact with another pilot who was higher and flying in opposite direction. Had not seen other pilot.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010 (B4455)	Pilot Female Age: 21 Rating: Under training	Location Treak Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Logic Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student misjudged vertical separation while ridge soaring and failed to turn away before scraping over top of oncoming glider. Both carried on flying.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010 (B4456)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind gradient on landing and overshot landing area. Struck railway sleeper on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 13.06.2010 (B4453)	Pilot Female Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary On repacking a chute that had been previously thrown, packer discovered either apex line stretched or main lines shrunk. Packing tab had been ripped off. Did not repack and reffered to manufacturer.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.06.2010 (B4450)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had been seen to be flying erratically before flying at speed into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebra
Date 12.06.2010 (B4451)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: AP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot, with history of shoulder dislocation, reached for uprights and dislocated shoulder. Pilot landed crosswind and ground-looped. No further injuries sustained.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 12.06.2010 (B4452)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Under training	Location Abinton West, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paramania Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged landing and hit parked car.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shin
Date 07.06.2010 (B4449)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: P	Location Stol, Slovenia Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on leaving a thermal. Glider did not recover as expected and entered spiral dive. Pilot was aware of low altitude so threw parachute.	Injury Pilot: Compressed vertebra
Date 06.06.2010 (B4448)	Pilot Female Age: 68 Rating: AP	Location Stol, Slovenia Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zoom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot got too low in competition and could not make landing field. Landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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