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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 31.01.2005 (B3880)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Marleycombe, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Tetra (M) Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to properly control glider following symmetric collapse at low level in marginal conditions.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, punctured lung
Date 29.01.2005 (B3879)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Multiple report on reserve repack by Bill Morris. See report for details.	Injury Unknown
Date 26.01.2005 (B3878)	Pilot Unknown	Location West Firle, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 31.12.2004 (B3877)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP	Location Presendyt, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova X-Act Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot was dragged and bounced while attempting to forward launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr leg
Date 28.12.2004 (B3876)	Pilot Male	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Harness airbag found to be worn (holed and delaminated) after 2 years use.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.12.2004 (B3874)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Llantisilo, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Brontes Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot crashed into rocky hill/cliff while ridge soaring. Possibly due to spin.	Injury Pilot: Head injuries
Date 11.12.2004 (B3875)	Pilot Male Age: 76 Rating: P	Location Lower Famara, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot spun glider at low level. Seen to be flying with half brake on approach then further turn invoked spin. Pilot was trying to land by wind sock!.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur fr ribs
Date 10.12.2004 (B3873)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bionic Bionic 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On testing a demo Bionic 2 paraglider resulted in unstable oscillation when central control line fully deployed. Glider flew ok if control line only pulled half way or less.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.12.2004 (B3872)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Novice	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled in long grass on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 05.12.2004 (B3871)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Ii Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student failed to keep hands high while releasing from tow line and caused glider to stall resulting in a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Dislo elbow

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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