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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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).

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 01.09.2001 (B3331)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location Oxboro Set-Aside, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Doodle-Bug/Magic Iii Launch Type: Powered Engine: radne, racket 120	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 27.08.2001 (B3327)	Pilot Unknown	Location Studland Peninsula, Dorset., UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary PPG spotted flying too low over built up area.	Injury Unknown

Date 27.08.2001 (B3328)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Moel Elio, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Octane Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched into thermal lift. Almost immediately he turned back to take advantage of the lift. He misjudged his position within the thermal lift and flew into an area of sinking air above the hill causing him to lose 20ft and impact the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, l1.

Date 27.08.2001 (B3329)	Pilot Unknown	Location Firle, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Mid air. Neither pilot identified.	Injury Unknown

Date 26.08.2001 (B3325)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Aspre - Sunbeuch, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Stealth Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following take off the glider began to oscillate in roll / yaw - the pilot was unable to control these oscillations which increased in severity until the glider impacted the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Multiple fractures of arms and legs.

Date 26.08.2001 (B3326)	Pilot Female	Location South Cerney, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Whilst attempting to prevent a man from driving his car up and down a runway, the car collided with the injured parties legs.	Injury Pilot: Bruised legs.

Date 23.08.2001 (B3324)	Pilot Male Age: 19 Rating: CP	Location Aspres, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot failed to flare or perform a plf during landing, consequently landed very heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower fibula.

Date 18.08.2001 (B3323)	Pilot Male Age: 34	Location Ben Lawyers/ Maell Correneach, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Spectra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot launched into strong conditions, stalled after take-off crashed into rock.	Injury Pilot: Two fractured lumbar vertebrae, fr ankle.

Date 14.08.2001 (B3322)	Pilot Female Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Le Grand Montet, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xt 145 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Using the s turn approach method, the pilot misjudged his position and ended up one third of the way down the field with too much height. He then hit some turbulence and was turned, the result being an impact with a telegraph pole.	Injury Unknown

Date 13.08.2001 (B3321)	Pilot Male Age: 38	Location Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby 200 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student pushed out on the control frame as the glider was hit by a gust, the glider stalled and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebrae, l3 and l4.

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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