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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 31.05.2010 (B4446)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: AP	Location Meggett Reservoir, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Boomerang GTO Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered low level asymmetric collapse while attempting to enter a thermal. Was also in leeside rotor at the time.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 31.05.2010 (B4447)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: P	Location Ben Toaig, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric and the symmetric collapse due to high level (6000ft) turbulence. On violent recovery from symmetric collapse 4 upper A lines snapped. Pilot landed safely. Lines possibly weakened by previous incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.05.2010 (B4445)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Pleinmont, Guernsey Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Antea Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot took off in poor condition with wind off slope. Suffered frontal collapse and landed heavily on rocks.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot and ankle.
Date 23.05.2010 (B4442)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Gt fransham, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Axis Vega Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and hit top of tree. Glider overflew and pulled pilot 20ft to ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, broken ribs
Date 23.05.2010 (B4443)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Gyrn Moelfre, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew too far back on approach to top land and was caught in rotor.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae
Date 23.05.2010 (B4444)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Swinside, UK	Wing Type Wing: Gradient Golden 2	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric and then symmetric collapse while ridge soaring. Probably due to turbulence from ridge in front. Wing reinflated just as pilot hit hill.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 18.05.2010 (B4441)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Bridlington, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to turn into wind fully and also to brake fully when landing. Landed heavily on harness.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 17.05.2010 (B4440)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P	Location Swinside, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach while attempting to land beside car. Caught harness on barb wire fence and fell back into riverbed.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis
Date 15.05.2010 (B4439)	Pilot Male Rating: Under training	Location Chetwynd, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite Maxum Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary While on tow the weak link broke. Pilot landed in a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.05.2010 (B4438)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Model Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Ace Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to properly control glider and stalled glider on approach in attempt to miss people in car park.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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