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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 09.08.2002 (B3508)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sportlite Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Spinnaker release failed to operate during tow launch despite several attempts.	Injury Unknown
Date 06.08.2002 (B3507)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bandit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot performing low level wing overs impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Broken pelvis (open book) dislocated elbow, torn bladder.
Date 03.08.2002 (B3502)	Pilot Male Age: 38	Location High Edge- Training Field, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Student injured neck whilst attempting PLF from kneeling position.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.08.2002 (B3503)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Condover Feastival, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Freex Pure Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Tow release webbing pulled riser through carabiner prior to tow launch. The webbing loop tightened around the speed bar line pulley area. This was noticed after take-off. Pilot released at 700ft and landed safely.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.08.2002 (B3504)	Pilot Male	Location Condover Airfield, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Powered Engine: Doodlebug	Summary Pilot attempted to launch diagonally across runway strip but failed to gain sufficient altitude to clear rough long grass - he impacted the long grass, beaking the prop and tearing the gliders sail.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.08.2002 (B3505)	Pilot Female	Location Condover Airfield, UK	Wing Type Wing: Avian Amour	Summary Mylar insert folded onto itself inside the leading edge - discovered by another pilot.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.08.2002 (B3506)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flying downwind to intended landing field realised that he would not reach the field. Having left himself no other landing options, and with a large ditch beneath him, the pilot opted to land downwind. He impacted the downwind side of the ditch.	Injury Pilot: Fractured l1 vertibrea, airlifted to royal preston hospital
Date 02.08.2002 (B3501)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Candover, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sportlite 396 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During tow launch the tow line finger trap loop came loose approximately 40 ft AGL. The pilot applkied brake to control the forward surge and impacted the ground feet first.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to lower back
Date 31.07.2002 (B3500)	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Pilot flew canopy slowly whilst close to the ground - canopy stalled asymmetrically at 20ft - pilot impacted the gound.	Injury Pilot: Serious head injuries.
Date 28.07.2002 (B3498)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Private Land, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Gradient Onyx Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot started engine of paramotor whilst supporting the frame. The canopy remained packed away. The engine revs were high pushing the unit forward. The pilot reacted by pushing out with his left hand which contacted the prop causing injury.	Injury Pilot: Left hand index finger 50% of tip severed, fingers 2 & 3 removed amputated to first joint. little finger 3mm of tip removed

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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