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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).

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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 28.10.2001 (B3361)	Pilot Male	Location Suttons Corner, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reserve parachute fell out of the students harness during an attempted forward launch.	Injury Unknown
Date 28.10.2001 (B3362)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon 25 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst ground handling a new canopy the pilot noticed that the Brummel hook connection to the speedbar had become detached. On one occasion the left control line became caught in the slot in the brummel hook.	Injury Unknown
Date 28.10.2001 (B3363)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location Lowca, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bonanza Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst soaring in windy conditions with the speed bar applied the canopy suffered a 80% deflation causing the glider to turn right. The situation deteriorated with the canopy cravtting and then entering a full stall. Pilot impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: Severe bruising to back, ribs and knees.
Date 27.10.2001 (B3357)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Merther, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Hang Glider Rigid Wing: Flight Design Ghost Buster Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged his landing approach resulting in him being too low. The pilot then flew into twp parked cars at the downwind end of the landing field.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated elbow, internal bruising - lung,liver and kidney.
Date 20.10.2001 (B3356)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to run during forward launch, sitting into the harness immediately and impactein the ground.	Injury Pilot: Hurt ankle
Date 18.10.2001 (B3355)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Otiva, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Medium Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student launched without instructor present - instructor then arrived and gave instruction over radio. Student didnt follow advice which resulted in canopy entering flat spin, canopy recovered student landed on the slope.	Injury Unknown
Date 16.10.2001 (B3354)	Pilot Male Age: 70 Rating: P	Location Butser Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr (r) forearm, bruised upper body.
Date 15.10.2001 (B3353)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Otiva, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Medium Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student attempted 360 degree turn with insufficient distance from the maountain, resulted in slope landing.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.10.2001 (B3352)	Pilot Male Age: 50	Location Mam Torr, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Bruised back.
Date 12.10.2001 (B3350)	Pilot Male Age: 27	Location Limerston, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 25.1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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