Incident Reports | Formal Investigations | Report incident | Safety

Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system will be made available on this page.

In the meantime all the 2025/6 reports submitted via the Euro system, and passed for publication before it was shut down, can be found below. Reports submitted via the earlier BHPA online reporting system can also be found below.

This page will slowly include the remaining incident report submitted via the old Euro system.

Unfortunately, whilst all of these reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field which determines if a report can appear on our website.

As a result around 1,400 old Euro reports have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can be included here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication, are however available on our Incident Reports Archive page

Summaries of published 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

You can also search the BHPA incident reports database by incident date, pilot, location, wing type, etc. For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, select paraglider from the drop down list, and enter Hay Bluff in the search box with the "or" option selected.

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

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

or and

If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 1727 published incident report summaries for all wing types

Displaying page 1 out of 173

[ Next ] - [ Bottom ]

Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.07.2026 (F19627)	Pilot male Age: 73 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 39 years (10 flights)	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported their accelerator system line wrapped around a camera mount on a carabiner, which then jammed. The line line tension caused the camera mount to separate and the flight continued without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 22.07.2026 (F19643)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 29 years 950 flights (51 flights)	Location Combe Gibbett, Newbury, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Lyght Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was seen to make a control input taking the paraglider close to the point of stall. The pilot impacted the slope and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 22.07.2026 (F19617)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 5 years	Location Wingland Airfield, Spalding, lincs Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Viper XC Launch Type: foot	Summary While making their first flight on a paraglider that was new to them, the pilot was seen to initiate a turn at approximately 100ft AGL and inadvertently induced a spin. The paraglider re-inflated in a nose-down attitude and descended to the ground, with the pilot sustaining injuries in the impact.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs, pelvis
Date 19.07.2026 (F19611)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1996 years (5 flights)	Location Moel Eilio, Llanberis, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Nyos Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was dragged over the ground and sustained injury when they lost control of the wing during a reverse launch in strong conditions. The reverse launch technique used necessitated letting go of the control handles when turning to face forwards.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 18.07.2026 (F19649)	Pilot male Age: 59 Rating: CP Flying Experience: Under a year 35 flights (35 flights)	Location White Wool, East Meon, BR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Koyot 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary On approach to slope land the pilot became aware of a fence and made a low 180 degree turn to avoid collision with the fence. The pilot then landed at hight speed and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, feet, legs
Date 17.07.2026 (F19599)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years	Location Lords Seat, Derbyshire Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: MacPara Verve Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot made a landing approach into a confined field, to avoid livestock in adjacent fields. They inadvertently induced a spin on approach and landed hard.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 08.07.2026 (F19551)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 300 flights (40 flights)	Location Milk Hill, Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 9 Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider pilot attempted a slope landing in light winds with varying wind direction. Their approach was made over rising ground and with a possible downwind component. The pilot identified that they could have aborted the approach, however they chose to continue and landed with high groundspeed, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 05.07.2026 (F19521)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 1 year 147 flights (100 flights)	Location East Hill, Devon Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Wing: Air Design Volt 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot took off without first centring themselves beneath their paraglider, resulting in a pendulum-like swing and a subsequent tree landing.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.07.2026 (F19536)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 2 years 130 flights (50 flights)	Location Mont Lambert, Mont Lambert, FR Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary Immediately after take-off, the pilot experienced an asymmetric collapse in a strong thermal, followed by increasingly aggressive right rolling, diving turns, and several small right tip tucks. The pilot landed safely and subsequently discovered that three lines in the right outer A-riser cascade had severed. The damage had not been identified during the daily inspection. The pilot reported that the French repair centre considered the damage consistent with stresses associated with SIV training, of which the pilot had completed 15 sorties during the preceding 10 months.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 29.06.2026 (F19609)	Pilot male Age: 37	Location Temple Lock, Temple Lock ,Marlow, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Drift Air	Summary The powered paraglider was reported to collide with a telegraph pole before impacting the concrete edge of the Temple Lock chamber of the River Thames. Members of the public assisted the pilot who was submerged or partially submerged in the water of the lock chamber. The emergency services recovered the pilot.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine, feet, legs, hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 1 August 2026

Displaying page 1 out of 173

[ Next ] - [ Bottom ]

A number of incident analysis reports are also available in the safety section of main portal, bhpa.co.uk. These are compiled from the individual incident reports submitted during the course of each year.

• Go to: Incident Reports (Informal)
• Go to: Incident Reports (Formal)
• Go to: Report an Incident
• Go to: Safety
• Go to: Pilot Development (Foundation Syllabus)
• Go to: Pilot Rating Scheme
• Go to: BHPA Courses
• Go to: Safety Notices
• Go to: CANP (Civil Aircraft Notification Procedure)
• Go to: NOTAMs (Notices to Aviation)
• Go to: Instructor & Coach Newsletters

The British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association is a member of