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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 12.07.2002 (B3468)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Babadag, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airea- Session Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot waited for gap in cloud before launching from mountain - following launch he decided to try and gain height. He then became engulfed in cloud, lost orientation, and flew into the mountainside.	Injury Pilot: Two dislocated bones in left foot, severed ligaments in r foot hospital: esnaf hastanesi, fethiye
Date 11.07.2002 (B3466)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Field At Inverhegang, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot launched a powere HG directly downwind of some powere lines. He was unable to gain sufficient height to clear the lines which he subsequently flew into.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 11.07.2002 (B3467)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P	Location Brown Edge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Klassie Launch Type: Powered	Summary During an attempted powered HG launch the aircraft drifted off course toward some trees. The pilot was unable to corrrect the situation and collided with a large bush.	Injury Unknown
Date 10.07.2002 (B3465)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 1	Summary Inexperienced pilot was inadvertently turned by turbulent air whilst ridge soaring. With insufficient airspeed the pilot was unable to correct the turn which resulted in a collision with the hill.	Injury Pilot: Soft tissue- facial, bruised hand & ribs, concussion, unconscious for approx 5 min, air helicopter to myrtha hospital
Date 07.07.2002 (B3463)	Pilot Unknown	Location Tailbridge, UK Wind Strength: 40-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Non member attempted 360 degree turn following launch - insufficient height resulted in him impacting the hill.	Injury Unknown
Date 07.07.2002 (B3464)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Rowter Farm, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: La Mouette Topless Launch Type: Powered Engine: Mosquito	Summary Pilot attempted to launch his powered hang glider upslope but was unable to achieve sufficient airspeed. The left wing dropped and the control frame impacted the ground breaking the left upright, the impact caused the prop to catch the sail.	Injury Unknown
Date 06.07.2002 (B3462)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Samba 29 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Helicopter had to change course to avoid pgs flying coastal site.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.07.2002 (B3461)	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Unauthorised balloon landings on regular basis taking place at Shadoxhurst (monksfield).	Injury Unknown
Date 24.06.2002 (B3459)	Pilot Unknown	Location Hunstanton, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird A Yellow One	Summary Pilot seen to attampt launch at foot of low cliffs. Canopy inflated dragging pilot over cliff tops into parked cars. Pilot then verbally abused car owner and hit the car with his helmet.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.06.2002 (B3460)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette Topless Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot attempting to top land in strong conditions struggled to turn the glider into wind whilst on the downwind leg. She tried apply more force by putting her feet onto the bottom bar, before returning to prone. She impacted the ground i the final turn.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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