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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 1715 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 21.01.2001 (B3236)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: AP	Location Beer Head, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Csx 137 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary HG attempting a rushed launch on a busy site clipped the ground with his wing tip causing the other wing to enter the lift first. The glider rotated about the inside wing and then hit the hill.	Injury Pilot: No injuries.
Date 15.01.2001 (B3235)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Cross Country, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: FreeX Mission Launch Type: Powered Engine: RAD, Airheart XL100	Summary Paramotor pilot landing out after a XC flight. During his landing approach the pilot attempted a 360 degree turn during which the wing stalled and entered a spin. The pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Sprained right hand, bruising.
Date 14.01.2001 (B3234)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot soaring with ridge on his left turned left toward the hill in front of an oncoming Pg. The canopies came very close to touching causing the second canopy to suffer a partial collapse.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.01.2001 (B3232)	Pilot Unknown	Location Threlkeld, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details!	Injury Pilot: Not specified, but not life threatening.
Date 13.01.2001 (B3233)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Blease Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Canopy suffered a front tuck in turbulent air.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, fr pelvis, pneumothorax, fr ribs
Date 10.01.2001 (B3230)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Buachaille Etive Mor, UK Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reports from the Scottish press of two PGs suffering collapses whilst flying in the Glencoe area.	Injury Pilot: Cuts and bruises
Date 10.01.2001 (B3231)	Pilot Male	Location Buachaille Etive Mor, UK Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reports from the Scottish press of two PGs suffering collapses whilst flying in the Glencoe area.	Injury Pilot: Fractured leg
Date 07.01.2001 (B3229)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Pilot hit tree - no details.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg, fr finger, concussion.
Date 28.12.2000 (B3228)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Buckingham Palace, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Paramotor pilot (Non BHPA member) landed his aircraft in the grounds of Buck Palace.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.12.2000 (B3227)	Pilot Female Age: 24	Location Macher, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During ground handliing trim problem discovered. It was found that c and d lines had shrunk by 10mm.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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