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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 24.08.2002 (B3518)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot almost dragged whilst attempting to launch.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.08.2002 (B3519)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Airways Flight Park, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot tow launched whilst wearing doodlebug power harness - engine off. At 20ft glider drifted off line - tow aborted - pilot unable to control gliders direction, drifted off course, pilot landed heavily on right side.	Injury Pilot: Broken bones in elbow, ambulance to derbyshire royal infirmary
Date 24.08.2002 (B3520)	Pilot Male Rating: AP	Location The Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst thermal soaring tha canopy entered a spin which the pilot didnt immediately recognise. The pilot countered the turn by braking the opposite wing causing the canopy to stall. With insufficient height for recovery the pilot threw his parachute.	Injury Unknown
Date 24.08.2002 (B3521)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Reo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Whilst tow launching the pilot attempted to correct his track by turning right. However, he did not maintain sufficient airspeed during this attempted turn, causing the left wing to stall. The glider drifted off course and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Chipped elbow, bruises to derbyshire royal hospital
Date 20.08.2002 (B3516)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Sourton, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Octane Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia, fr fibula, (fracture below the knee and spiral fracture above the ankle).
Date 18.08.2002 (B3513)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Nont Sarah, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Sepk Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Model aircraft collided with the paragliders lines causing a permanent asymmetric collapse. The pilot was able to land safely.	Injury Unknown
Date 18.08.2002 (B3514)	Pilot Unknown	Location Mod North Luffenham, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During vehicle tow launch the Land Rover struck a concealed concrete block causing tensio reader to be propelled forward striking his cheek.	Injury Pilot: Lh face bruised cheek bone
Date 18.08.2002 (B3515)	Pilot Male Age: 66	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley 988 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Students feet slipped forward on landing resulting in him landing on his backside.	Injury Pilot: Pulled back muscles
Date 16.08.2002 (B3512)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Devils Dyke, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airbourne - Fun	Summary Student on early high flight overcontrolled the pitch of the glider durng landing. Attempted to flare then fell through the A frame - failed to let go of the uprights.	Injury Pilot: Upper arm fracture, ambulance to sussex county- brighton
Date 15.08.2002 (B3511)	Pilot Unknown	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Student dislocated shoulder whilst pracising PLF.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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