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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 16.02.2001 (B3247)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: APCO Sierra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot attempted reverse launch. Appeared to have incorrectly set up equipmment possibly had the controls in the wrong hands. Following inflation the pilot lost control of the canopy and pendulumed into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Suspected bruised or compressed spine.
Date 16.02.2001 (B3248)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP	Location Alfamar (Malaga), Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured femur, ribs, punctured lung.
Date 14.02.2001 (B3246)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: P	Location Rushup Edge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: APCO Allegra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attemting to use thermal lift whilst very close to the hill in very weak conditions. Canopy suffered a left tuck, the pilot attempted to pump the left control but the canopy spun into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle. complicated by discovery of a fracture related to a previous injury.
Date 13.02.2001 (B3245)	Pilot Male Age: 29	Location Combe Gibbett, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Apollo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student made final turn on landing approach too wide and as a result had insufficient height to reach the landing area and flew into small trees at the base of the hill.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.02.2001 (B3244)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Sutra Beach, Malaysia Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot doing fly-by in front of camera turned sharply into the path of another paramotor. Second paramotor was forced to take evasive action which resulted in his canopies wing touching the sea causing a water landing.	Injury Pilot: No injuries pilot 1 no injuries pilot 2
Date 09.02.2001 (B3243)	Pilot Male	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged his approach to the landing area which resulted in a downwind landing. Although the wind was 0-5 the landing was fast.	Injury Pilot: Fractured fibia, at joint of ankle.
Date 08.02.2001 (B3242)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Winter Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary A paraglider and hang glider were soaring Winter Hill when a small aircraft appeared and began to perform aerobatics close to the site. The paraglider suffered a collapse which the pilot was able to correct. .	Injury Unknown
Date 31.01.2001 (B3241)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Mala, Spain Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision V Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot flew too close to the hill in turbulent conditions - resulted in the glider being turned toward the hill in a strong gust.	Injury Pilot: Fr scaphoid bone left hand; break at old fracture. bruised face and leg
Date 28.01.2001 (B3237)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location South Cerney, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Eiff Classic 259 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During tow launch the line broke at the pilot end at 350. The pilot set up a normal landing approach but failed to flair on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fractures to lower leg
Date 28.01.2001 (B3238)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: CP	Location Sutons Corner, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured fibula.

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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