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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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).

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

There are 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 24.06.2006 (B4052)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Limerstone Down, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 3-4m and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder

Date 23.06.2006 (B4048)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: AP	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Intox Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered collapse, probably due to rotor, at low level. Emergency chute deployed at 57m (190ft) and landed safely. Pilot (experienced comp pilot) had attempted to recover but noticed how fast ground was coming up!.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 23.06.2006 (B4049)	Pilot Female Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Fochriw, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot slope landed having lost lift due to wind being off hill. Glider caught by wind and pulled pilot through rocky gully.	Injury Pilot: 2 fr wrists, bruising

Date 17.06.2006 (B4047)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: Novice	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Tempus Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student failed to follow flight plan or instruction and flew into tree.	Injury Pilot: Scratches and bruising

Date 16.06.2006 (B4046)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed cross wind in light conditions and landed faster than expected.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle

Date 15.06.2006 (B4045)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student completed flight plan and landed but twisted ankle on tussock during landing.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle

Date 14.06.2006 (B4043)	Pilot Male	Location West Runton, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Calypso Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot clipped sea defense while on landing approach having misjudged wind gradient. .	Injury Pilot: Fr arm

Date 14.06.2006 (B4044)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Safir 2000 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large symmetric collapse at low level while on approach to slope landing. Caught out by rotor caused by wind being well off the slope.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr vertebra

Date 12.06.2006 (B4042)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P	Location Chabre, Laragne, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bliss Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Comp pilot got low over trees looking for lift. Hit sink and landed in trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 11.06.2006 (B4040)	Pilot Male Age: 17 Rating: Novice	Location Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Paracommander Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Student had fast landing and landed with feet apart.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib & fib

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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