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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 07.06.2005 (B3920)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student did not flare on landing and glider over-flew, pulling student over.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia
Date 06.06.2005 (B3918)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location Annecy, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had to land in emergency field having left it too late to make official field. Glider nosed in in long grass as pilot could not locate harness zip and had to land on wheels.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs
Date 06.06.2005 (B3919)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Col De Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was crashed into by out of control paraglider pilot while waiting on ramp to take off.	Injury Pilot: Gashed leg, bruised shoulder
Date 05.06.2005 (B3917)	Pilot Male	Location Formaw Hill Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unknown pilot took off having clipped in back to front. Pilot landed safely and rectified fault.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 03.06.2005 (B3916)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Sportster Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot overshot landing area and crashed into a parked car.	Injury Pilot: Strained elbow
Date 31.05.2005 (B3914)	Pilot Male Age: 18 Rating: Novice	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew into hill while attempting a top to bottom flight with turns.	Injury Pilot: Bruised foot
Date 31.05.2005 (B3915)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Ringstead, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged site and airflow resulting in a water landing. No dry option. V lucky!	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.05.2005 (B3913)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: Novice	Location Wetton, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Student fractured collar bone while practicing PLFs prior to flight training.	Injury Pilot: Fr clavicle
Date 17.05.2005 (B3911)	Pilot Female Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Smeatharpe, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Sx2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot stalled glider during winch launch after pushing bar out having foolishly anticipated increased winch tension that did not materialise due to mechanical failure.	Injury Pilot: Bruises and grazing.
Date 17.05.2005 (B3912)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: Novice	Location Truleigh Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric collapse at 10m and hit hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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