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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 09.06.2003 (B3660)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bunster, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FLYING PLANET Spirit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.06.2003 (B3658)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Wheston, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Apollo 27 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student tripped having made a successful landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower arm.
Date 08.06.2003 (B3659)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Magilligan, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: mosquito	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Minor rib injury (no medical aid required)
Date 07.06.2003 (B3656)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Aspres, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rush Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.06.2003 (B3657)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Raf N Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Harley Paramont Pii Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.06.2003 (B3653)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor (East), UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Bruising and initial winding
Date 01.06.2003 (B3654)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P	Location Folly At Maiden Newton, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Hornet Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder and right elbow ( ulna and radii).
Date 01.06.2003 (B3655)	Pilot Female Age: 24 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Mars Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken left humerous, bruises to left side
Date 31.05.2003 (B3650)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Aerotow-Com Aulk, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Relax Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Sprain to right wrist and a bruise on knee
Date 31.05.2003 (B3651)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Fontanile , Castelluccio, Di Norcia. Itlay, Italy Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FLYING PLANET Spirit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Vertebra compression fracture and possible cracked rib

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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