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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 1834 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 09.06.2001 (B3284)	Pilot Male Age: 20	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Stubby Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Not given
Date 09.06.2001 (B3285)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Dunstable Downs, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Proton Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched as rain was approaching. Conditions became turbulent and the canopy suffeed a collapse recovering after a drop of 30-40ft. The pilot began to get blown back before suffering a second collapse from which the canopy didnt recover.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 04.06.2001 (B3282)	Pilot Male Age: 60	Location Tollgate, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tore bicep muscle during forward launch .	Injury Pilot: Suspected torn bicep (l)
Date 04.06.2001 (B3283)	Pilot Male Age: 47	Location Melverley, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Sabre (L) Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot failed to flare sufficiently on landing and fell over on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fractured (l) ankle
Date 01.06.2001 (B3281)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: AP	Location St Vincent Les Forts, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Kiss Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to generate sufficient airspeed on launch glider stalled and the pilot impacted a road below launch area.	Injury Pilot: Fractured left heel bone, cut right elbow.
Date 29.05.2001 (B3280)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: AP	Location Laragne, France	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary Side wire broke as the pilot turned above the landing area.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 28.05.2001 (B3279)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: AP	Location Laragne (South), France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro Laminar St	Summary Pilot accidentally released pin on parachute container whilst trying to zip harness up.	Injury Unknown
Date 20.05.2001 (B3276)	Pilot Unknown	Location Lowca, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Futura Launch Type: Powered Engine: 210 cc	Summary Pilot appeared to stall paramotor following launch.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts and grazes.
Date 20.05.2001 (B3277)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Private Airfield Nr Bury St Edmunds., UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes 5*6 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot failed to correct turn during launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 20.05.2001 (B3278)	Pilot Male Age: 24	Location Curium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student tried to pull himself into the harness seat by pulling on the A risers glider lost altitude pilot hit the ground.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts to legs

Last updated: 20 September 2026

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