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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 21.07.2002 (B3490)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Abertysswg, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix	Summary Low level collapse due to turbulence - pilot impacted hill having failed to make correct recovery inputs.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 21.07.2002 (B3491)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet- Spirit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst thermal soaring in strng conditions the pilot over controlled the canopy causing it to spin. He immediately threw his emergency parachute which successfully deployed. .	Injury Pilot: Sore back
Date 20.07.2002 (B3486)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Barton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Serek Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During tow launch the weak link broke. The protective muff remained attached to the tow line therefore the unprotected end recoiled and hit the pilot in the mouth.	Injury Pilot: Impact to top lip and frount tooth
Date 20.07.2002 (B3487)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Butser West, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Alvion Elan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Midair collision with model aircraft - hang glider continued to fly unaffected, model broke in impact.	Injury Unknown
Date 20.07.2002 (B3488)	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Bell Hill, Blandford, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary HG pilot noticed PG being blown backwards towards his parked glider. PG was blown over flat HG. HG pilot caught PG tip lines deflating the canopy.	Injury Unknown
Date 19.07.2002 (B3485)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xyon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following launch the pilot took one wrap on the controls. He then encountered rising air in which he applied both controls with the intention of slowing the glider down, the result of this was that the canopy stalled. and the pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Small bite to tongue
Date 18.07.2002 (B3484)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Chabre-Larange, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Fast jet narrowly missed a hang glider soaring the ridge at 200ft. Approxi mate separation 100ft.	Injury Unknown
Date 17.07.2002 (B3482)	Pilot Male Age: 29	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird @ Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to follow radio instruction during a soaring flight which resulted in him flying too close to the hill. The student did not turn away from the hill as he got lower and collided with the slope.	Injury Pilot: Broken ankle
Date 17.07.2002 (B3483)	Pilot Unknown	Location Woldingham 2, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Spectra Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student encountered lift during low hop as he did so he applied some control - on instruction to release the control the pilot did so and swung forward resulting in a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle
Date 15.07.2002 (B3481)	Pilot Female Rating: CP	Location Westbury (North), UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence whilst flying downwind towards the ridge. Her canopy dived forward and impacted some trees.	Injury Pilot: Neck and leg stiffness

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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