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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 01.09.2002 (B3529)	Pilot Male Age: 43	Location Warren Hill Low, UK Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle, 1st aid applied and to casulaty
Date 01.09.2002 (B3530)	Pilot Male	Location Warren Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FLYING PLANET Astair Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to gain sufficient airspeed on launch and attempted to jump into the air.	Injury Pilot: Twisted ankle
Date 31.08.2002 (B3528)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Allegra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst out landing the pilot initiated a right hand turn to enter his intended field. The canopy entered a spiral at approximately 50ft and the pilot impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to back and arm, went to gp few days later
Date 29.08.2002 (B3527)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Marfield Beacon, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Fractured hip and leg, helicopter to hospital
Date 28.08.2002 (B3525)	Pilot Male Age: 70 Rating: P	Location Branscombe, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xyon 124 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a recent repack the pilot emergency parachute accidentally deployed.	Injury Pilot: Broken vertebra l1 & l3, compresed l1, wedge l3
Date 28.08.2002 (B3526)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Col Dela Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Typhoon S4 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Paraglider pilot attempted to launch whilst a hang glider was stood waiting to launch at the one and only TO spot. The PG pilot failed to control his canopy which then dragged him into the HG.	Injury Unknown
Date 26.08.2002 (B3523)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Sarn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot seen to be applying controls too aggressively. The canopy entered a spin, and after one and a half rotations recovered and dived toward the hill. The pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Xchin, lower back, left leg, ambulance to shrewsbury hospital
Date 26.08.2002 (B3524)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Sarn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Makalu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot overcontrolled his canopy when attempting to turn in thermal lift. The canopy suffered a collapse and pendulumed into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured ankle, broken lower leg, broken vertabra, cracked ribs
Date 25.08.2002 (B3522)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Mars Illaro Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary As the glider approached the ground following a low hop the student pulled in the control frame causing the glider to dive into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured humerous, 1st aid & to derbyshire royal infirmary
Date 24.08.2002 (B3517)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Brake lines discovered to be worn where they pass through pulley.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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