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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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 18.05.2004 (B3791)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Ochsen Alpe, Germany Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Phor 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Passenger stumbled just prior to launch causing pilot to fall over too. Dragged 5m in the process of regaining control of glider. Passenger suffered pain in shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder
Date 17.05.2004 (B3788)	Pilot Male Age: 26 Rating: P	Location Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot blown off course by strong winds during top landing and flew into side of parked vehicle.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.05.2004 (B3789)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Flight Design Ghostbuster Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot decided to land having lost spoileron in turbulence. Caught base bar on long grass and nosed in heavily.	Injury Pilot: Neck and back strain
Date 16.05.2004 (B3787)	Pilot Male Age: 48	Location Thornhill Airfield	Wing Type Unknown	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 15.05.2004 (B3785)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Scamblesby, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot alleged to have spooked horse some 750m away causing some minor damage to horse. Pilot unaware of occurrence until informed by farmer who owns land.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.05.2004 (B3786)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: SPHG	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Mcdaddy Launch Type: Powered Engine: Fly, p130	Summary At 50m when pilot and passenger were getting into their seats, the risers became twisted resulting in the pilot losing control. They crashed heavily with the passenger sustaining severe injuries.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr collar bone
Date 14.05.2004 (B3783)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Moel Wnion, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student became confused on approach and landed downwind (no PLF) thinking he was into wind.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel
Date 14.05.2004 (B3784)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vulcan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot discovered the The Loft had replaced lines incorrectly during a service causing the glider to be deformed in flight. Pilot was not able to discover fault during pre-flight check as all looked ok.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.05.2004 (B3781)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location Fochriw, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to control glider having made a successful top landing. Glider pulled student over causing 2 broken fingers.	Injury Pilot: 2 fr fingers
Date 07.05.2004 (B3782)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: Novice	Location Abertysswg, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student lost concentration and pushed out instead of pulling in causing glider to stall.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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