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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).

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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 03.06.2006 (B4031)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse at 50ft while on approach to top land in turbulent conditions. Glider recovered immediately but pilot hit ground as glider surged forward.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.05.2006 (B4029)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Frocester, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot allowed himself to run out of options when flying low on ridge. Got caught in rotor and fell heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib, fib and knee
Date 14.05.2006 (B4028)	Pilot Female Age: 53 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Aerodyne Yogi Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student landed slightly downwind after a top to bottom flight and landed heavilly.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia
Date 12.05.2006 (B4026)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bonanza Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed cross wind attempting to spot land at wind sock.	Injury Pilot: Stiff knee
Date 12.05.2006 (B4027)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Moel Accre, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Synergy 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to bottom land due to lack of lift. Landed very fast downwind having misjudged wind direction in valley.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, muscle strain
Date 10.05.2006 (B4025)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: Novice	Location White Pike, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Flite Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student did not flare fully on landing so landed quicker than expected. Stuck out foot which caught on rough ground.	Injury Pilot: Dislo ankle, fr tibia
Date 08.05.2006 (B4024)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location North Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle 164 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot mistimed flare and landed heavily having been cut away from aborted winch tow.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 07.05.2006 (B4023)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Novice	Location Castle Moreton, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student stalled glider at 20 - 30 ft and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr l3 vertebra
Date 05.05.2006 (B4022)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Shining Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched into strong thermal and suffered an asymmetric collapse before being dumped back onto hill. Pilot blames overconfidence and underestimating gust strength.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 30.04.2006 (B4021)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham Valley, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet Syrius Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student mistimed flare on ground skimming flight and landed heavilly.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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