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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 24.09.2001 (B3348)	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 27 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled and injured wrist during attempted forward launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 22.09.2001 (B3344)	Pilot Unknown	Location Rudlers North, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student attempted to run off excess speed during slope landing, turned ankle on rough ground.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle.
Date 22.09.2001 (B3345)	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: CP	Location France	Wing Type Unknown	Summary The zipper holding the back section of a Lubin TX 11 harness burst during flight.	Injury Unknown
Date 22.09.2001 (B3346)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Firle, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Ruptured tendon, right leg.
Date 22.09.2001 (B3347)	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Tintin Epidavros, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bandit Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilkot misjudged his landing approach resulting in him overshooting into some trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr (l) humerus, bruised rib, bruised (l) thigh.
Date 21.09.2001 (B3343)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: P	Location Montmin, Col De La Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova X-Act Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pink Nova fabric tore easily . The glider was three years old and had been flown for 79 hours.	Injury Unknown
Date 18.09.2001 (B3342)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Wing: Moyes Xtralight	Summary Two carbon fibre dive sticks broke in separate incidents, one on an extacy the other an xtralight sx2.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.09.2001 (B3341)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot failed to execute an emergency canopy collapse following an aborted forward launch. Part of the canopy contacted the motor causing damage to the lines and prop.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.09.2001 (B3340)	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Sourton Tor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew into a rocky outcrop during an extended top to bottom flight. .	Injury Pilot: Two broken legs.
Date 10.09.2001 (B3339)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Amour	Summary Batten trapped under the mylar leading edge caused severe turn in flight, pilot didnt realise until hed landed.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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