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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 11.05.2002 (B3428)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Mistral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot performing 360 degree turns whilst low. During one turn the glider encountered sinking air with the result that he was unable to complete the turn, the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Cracked/fractured l1 vertibrae
Date 11.05.2002 (B3429)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro 2000	Summary Pilot approaching top landing field misjudged windstrength and made his final turn too low leaving insufficient height to clear a wall at the downwind end of the field. The pilot landed cross wind behind the wall.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002 (B3423)	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Xbow Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Hang glider pilot nosed in whilst top landing in a small field. Was seen to approach with insufficient airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Knee grase
Date 05.05.2002 (B3424)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind strength on landing approach which resulted in his landing approach being too far back behind landing field. He narrowly avoided a collision with a barbed wire fence.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002 (B3425)	Pilot Unknown	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002 (B3426)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Corndon, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: La Mouette- Topless 1	Summary Following a xc flight the pilot misjudged the wind direction which resulted in a downwind landing. The glider landed on its wheels then ground looped.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.05.2002 (B3420)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Kennel Farm, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Whilst Operator was setting guillotines on Koch winch splicing on braided nylon rope failed as he pushed down on bar causing him to fall forward and hit his face on drum.	Injury Pilot: Cut to chin bruizing to cheek bone
Date 04.05.2002 (B3421)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P	Location Hillend Edinburgh, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst collapsing the canopy following landing a gust caused the canopy to inflate pulling the pilot up and backwards. The pilots helmet hit a fence and snagged as the rest of his body was pulled over the fence.	Injury Pilot: Concussion & strained muscle in neck
Date 04.05.2002 (B3422)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: CP	Location Kennel Farm, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Following a tow launch the pilot flew downwind back to launch. He failed to turn into wind to landed - downwind landing.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.05.2002 (B3418)	Pilot Female Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta S	Summary Brummel hooks were wider than 1mm suggested gap - discovered upon inspection.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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