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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 16.07.2005 (B3947)	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered 40% asymmetric collapse and failed to properly control glider resulting in a heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, whiplash
Date 16.07.2005 (B3948)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Smeatharpe, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Sx3 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot crashed on tow after guillotined winch line caught on base bar then fence. .	Injury Pilot: Fr arm, bruising, grazes
Date 16.07.2005 (B3949)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Dungiven, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z-One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student caught out by gust on launch. Twisted ankle badly on controlling glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle and fibula
Date 16.07.2005 (B3950)	Pilot Male	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot 360d into the hill at high speed.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 12.07.2005 (B3944)	Pilot Female Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed heavily having gone off line during low hop flight.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 12.07.2005 (B3945)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Smeatharpe, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Extralite 137 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot pushed out on aerotow launch. Glider dropped wing and nosed in hard.	Injury Pilot: Grazed knee
Date 12.07.2005 (B3946)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: AP	Location Piedraheita, Spain Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large collapse while on speed bar at altitude. Pilot deployed emergency chute but suffered broken foot due to 10m/s descent rate at impact.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 10.07.2005 (B3942)	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: P	Location Tor Scar, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova X-Ray Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and spiraled into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur
Date 10.07.2005 (B3943)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: AP	Location Pena Negra, Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Targa 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered multiple collapses in turbulent conditions resulting in emergency chute deployment. Descent rate 8m/s resulted in heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr l2 vertebra
Date 09.07.2005 (B3940)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Airprox see report form.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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