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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 03.05.2002 (B3419)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Dora, Cyprus Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a soaring flight the pilot appraoched the top landing by making a downwind leg then turning into wind. On turning into wind the pilot realised his glider wasnt penetrating forward. At 20ft his canopy collapsed and he fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Broken right wrist- fractured lower radius
Date 25.04.2002 (B3417)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Shinning Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour159 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following a short xc flight the pilot misjudged his approach into a field clipping the roof of a barn on his final turn into wind. The glider rotated left and then inverted.	Injury Pilot: Sprained left wrist bruised hip
Date 24.04.2002 (B3415)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk. Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Off Piste Discovery Launch Type: Powered Engine: Radne 120	Summary During flight a spring from the exhaust broke from its mounting and fell into the propellor which catapulted it into the sail causing a tear.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.04.2002 (B3416)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Powered	Summary During an early power launch the pilot released the power once airborne and then immediately flared the glider causing the right wing to stall and touch the ground, the glider rotaed about this wing and impacted the ground.	Injury Unknown
Date 21.04.2002 (B3414)	Pilot Male Age: 25	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Sun Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped and fell whilst ground handling the canopy.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to r arm/shoulder.
Date 20.04.2002 (B3411)	Pilot Male Age: 19	Location Barton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During a tow launch the canopy gained 6ft altitude before descending due to lack of tension - as it did so the pilots body rotated resulting in the injury.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to left leg.
Date 20.04.2002 (B3412)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Dynasty Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Flying in turbulent conditions encountered sinking air as he turned away from the ridge. This resulted in him sinking below the ridge and approaching a tree, the pilots attemps to turn away from the tree were too late.	Injury Unknown
Date 20.04.2002 (B3413)	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Darley Mook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Fly 2 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary During a tandem aerotow launch turbulence caused the weak link to break. The pilot flew a downwind leg followed by an attempt to turn into wind. With insufficient height to complete the turn the pilot landed cross wind, hitting a fence.	Injury Pilot: Sore back
Date 19.04.2002 (B3410)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Olivers Castle, UK Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot became lost during xc flight. Helipcopter approached and circled him. Pilot landed and was met by military police who cautioned him.	Injury Unknown
Date 17.04.2002 (B3409)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot attempted 360 degree turn with insufficient height - impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr both wrists, possible l ankle, bruising etc to face, concussion.

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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