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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 14.07.2002 (B3480)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette Topless Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Inexperienced pilot misjudged landing approach, narrowly avoided collision with parked cars. Bent upright and heart bolt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.07.2002 (B3469)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Barton Airfield Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During PG tow launch the weak link broke causing the pilot to fall backwards - as he did so the quick release mechanism hit him in the mouth breaking a tooth.	Injury Pilot: Chipped tooth- dentist filled
Date 13.07.2002 (B3470)	Pilot Unknown	Location Tow Scar, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Philion Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled whilst attempting low hop.	Injury Pilot: Stumbled and hurt right ankle- first aid applied
Date 13.07.2002 (B3471)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite 396 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged altitude on downwind leg of landing approach, made final turn into wind too low and was unable to complete the turn.	Injury Pilot: Both pilot and passenger went to hospital for exrays but no reported injury
Date 13.07.2002 (B3472)	Pilot Unknown	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Sportlite 396 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot was nable to complete the final turn into wind during the landing approach due to insufficient height - landed cross wind falling onto the passenger.	Injury Pilot: Bruise.
Date 13.07.2002 (B3473)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location North Luffenham Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley 454 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During tow launch the left control line came free from the control loop. The tow was terminated at a safe height and the pilot landed maintaining direction of launch.	Injury Pilot: Sore ankle
Date 13.07.2002 (B3474)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sportlife 396 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured bone in th efoot- plaster applied
Date 13.07.2002 (B3475)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Paramount Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Tow release line came undone at time of release - pilot pulled up yoke and released by hand.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.07.2002 (B3476)	Pilot Unknown	Location Back Of Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student drifted off course during forward launch, tripped and fell onto small rock.	Injury Pilot: Cut to lower shin, first aid given by instructor
Date 13.07.2002 (B3477)	Pilot Female Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot was unaware that the wind had increased. Her canopy was unable to penetrate forward, so she applied speed bar. At 20ft the canopy suffered a front tuck and the pilot fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder and broken collar bone,

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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