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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 11.01.2003 (B3580)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: FLPA	Location The Tarn Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java 155/Mosquito Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 07.01.2003 (B3579)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Jama, Spain	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Simba Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 05.01.2003 (B3578)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: AP	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs
Date 04.01.2003 (B3577)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: Novice	Location Rodneys Pillar, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Moon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Lower back injury and knee
Date 25.11.2002 (B3576)	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Canopy collapsed while student was making top landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, possible suspected compressin of spine.
Date 18.11.2002 (B3575)	Pilot Female Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Beer Head, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Stiff sore. nothing serious
Date 06.11.2002 (B3574)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: CP	Location Alfamar, Spain, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Aircus (M) Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and landed in wind shadow behind buildings.	Injury Pilot: Small fracture to the lower right fibula at ankle
Date 04.11.2002 (B3573)	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Cold Norton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: RADNE 120	Summary Prop shaft support block came loose causing prop shaft to wander which resulted in thrust line changing and bad left turn.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.10.2002 (B3572)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus	Summary Worn pulleys discovered to be causing damage to the control lines.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.10.2002 (B3571)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: CP	Location Peters Paradise Greece, GR Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilots foot trapped when he released speed bar, canopy suffered a collapse, pilot seen to be applying too much control during descent. IMpacted ground hard.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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