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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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
31.05.2002

(B3436)
Pilot
Male

Age:
37

Rating:
P
Location
Mount Caburn,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Trekking
Dynasty

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Three pilots on converging flight paths non of them took appropriate avoiding action resulting in them narrowley missing each other.
Injury
Unknown
Date
31.05.2002

(B3437)
Pilot
Male

Age:
37

Rating:
CP
Location
Le Reward,
France

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Nova
Carbon

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot misjudged suitability of field for landing following a cross country flight, narrowly avoided power lines and an electric fence, and in the process caused the glider to spin 180 degrees resulting in the pilot landing heavily on his back.
Injury
Pilot:
Compressed l2 vertibrae- fracture; to hospital in central annecy
Date
31.05.2002

(B3438)
Pilot
Male

Age:
52
Location
Darley Moor,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Icaro
Mars

Launch Type:
Winch Tow

Summary
Student pushed out during tow launch causing the gliders left wing to stall, the glider turned and the left wing tip hit the ground.
Injury
Pilot:
Bruised right leg anmd shoulder
Date
28.05.2002

(B3435)
Pilot
Male

Age:
47
Location
Paravion

Wing Type
Paraglider

Summary
Parachute bridle shortened. When re-attached to the harness the carabiner would prize the stitching apart.
Injury
Unknown
Date
27.05.2002

(B3434)
Pilot
Male

Age:
32
Location
Swyre Hill,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Firebird
2- One

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
No details available
Injury
Pilot:
Broken ulna & radius
Date
24.05.2002

(B3433)
Pilot
Male

Rating:
CP
Location
Field, Roxton Road, Chawston, Beds,
UK

Wing Type
Paraglider

Summary
Report received from AAIB - low level paraglider collapse.
Injury
Pilot:
Fatal.
Date
12.05.2002

(B3430)
Pilot
Male

Age:
46

Rating:
CP
Location
Kimmeridge,
UK

Wing Type
Paraglider

Summary
Helicopter flew low over site.
Injury
Unknown
Date
12.05.2002

(B3431)
Pilot
Male

Age:
55

Rating:
CP
Location
Little Atherfield Farm,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Turbulent

Wing Type
Powered HG

Wing:
Wills Wing Eagle 164

Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
Doodlebug Power Unit

Summary
First landing approach was too high, pilot made a second attmept which was still too high. He overshot and flew to an alternative field but flew into rotor behind a hedge causing the aircraft to stall twice before impacting the ground.
Injury
Pilot:
Knocked unconcious, bleeding from nose, general bruising.
Date
12.05.2002

(B3432)
Pilot
Male

Age:
53

Rating:
P
Location
Thornhill,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-8 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Solar Wings
Scandal Xkr

Launch Type:
Aero Tow

Summary
Pilot misjudged landing approach and undershot the intended landing field. He collided with a tall bush resulting in the glider sustaining structural damage.
Injury
Unknown
Date
11.05.2002

(B3427)
Pilot
Female

Age:
43

Rating:
CP
Location
Bossington,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Firebird
Matrix

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Following a soaring flight the pilot flew downwind at 500ft agl to land at the car park. At 250ft the canopy suffered a major collapse. The pilot chose to throw her emergency parachute which opened immediately. She landed uninjured.
Injury
Unknown

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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