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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 1834 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 01.07.2001 (B3295)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Serra Do Loranco, Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Laminar Mrx 2001st13 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot forced to land on wheels after xc flight. Wheels snagged in ruts in the field the pilot swung through control frame.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated elbow.

Date 28.06.2001 (B3294)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Letale, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Wind direction turned through 90 degrees during landing approach causing the canopy to stall.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur and rib.

Date 24.06.2001 (B3293)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Fochrhiw, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird G Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot overshot landing area, attempted to slow the glider down as he was gliding down a sloping field canopy stalled.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis, fr wrist, fr rib.

Date 23.06.2001 (B3291)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Mendlesham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Rumour 2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot drifted off line during tow flight after long lay-off, the tow was aborted and the pilot crashed in long grass.	Injury Pilot: Sprained neck

Date 23.06.2001 (B3292)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Trehane, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Gradient Sapphire Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot suffered line break during tow launch, following release canopy entered a spin and did not recover before impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: Severe bruising.

Date 22.06.2001 (B3290)	Pilot Female Age: 39	Location Chillerton Down, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero M Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student fell over whilst attempting slope landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 17.06.2001 (B3289)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Curium Ridge, Cyprus., Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Large Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot tried to remain airborne in weak conditions, sank too low to reach a safe landing field, landed heavily in unsuitable (small, fenced) area.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower left leg.

Date 15.06.2001 (B3288)	Pilot Female Age: 23	Location Dune Du Pyla, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student misjudged landing approach which resulted in her having insufficient height to make her final turn, crashed dsuring the turn.	Injury Pilot: Fractured right fibula.

Date 12.06.2001 (B3287)	Pilot Male Age: 21	Location Pen Hale, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Torn ligament/tendon left knee.

Date 11.06.2001 (B3286)	Pilot Unknown	Location Cheiron, France Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Gashed leg

Last updated: 20 September 2026

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