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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 29.05.2004 (B3801)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot turned too tight due to proximity to hill. Probably caused spin then stalled in trying to recover surge.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, cracked rib

Date 25.05.2004 (B3798)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Agy, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had to take avoiding action when on finals to avoid collision with another paraglider that had been carrying out 360s low to the ground. Turning sharply to avoid the collision caused the glider to dive and the pilot pendulumed into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra

Date 25.05.2004 (B3799)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student applied erratic control input at 6m above ground. Canopy stalled and student landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, vertebra and pelvis

Date 23.05.2004 (B3796)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Firle, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Cosmic Rider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Dual pilot caught out by wind switching in landing area and landed heavily crosswind. Passenger sustained minor back strain.	Injury Pilot: Strained back muscles

Date 23.05.2004 (B3797)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Sutton Meadows, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Emergency parachute deployed accidentaly having just released from aerotow. Pilot thinks it may not have been correctly fitted.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.05.2004 (B3795)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Nantymoel, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Space Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caught hand on ground while landing, fracturing his wrist.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 20.05.2004 (B3794)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Wing: Gin Bolero Plus	Summary Emergency chute clover loops failed on harness.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 19.05.2004 (B3792)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: CP	Location Ja Voravy, Czech Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Phelix Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged distance from landing area and landed short with glider landing on power lines. Glider was badly damaged.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 19.05.2004 (B3793)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: AP	Location Doran, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Nomad Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered severe turbulence in alpine area resulting in a complete collapse of the glider. Pilot tried but failed to recover so threw his emergency chute and landed safely without injury or damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 18.05.2004 (B3790)	Pilot Male Age: 44	Location UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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