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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 1834 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 16.05.2001 (B3275)	Pilot Male Age: 24	Location Tegelberg, Germany Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to follow instructions given over the radio and flew into an area known to be turbulent. Canopy suffered a 60% asymmetric collapse on the left wing the canopy turned through 180 degrees and the student impacted a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.05.2001 (B3274)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Oludenize, Turkey Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot following radio instruction flew out to sea too far to return to shore. Realised too late that the instructions were meant for someone else.	Injury Unknown
Date 09.05.2001 (B3273)	Pilot Male Age: 50	Location Audou, Crete Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Futura 42 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged glide angle was unable to reach landing field, forced to land in olive grove.	Injury Pilot: Fractured ankle.
Date 08.05.2001 (B3272)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Crimdon Dene, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Saber (Medium) Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot noticed b & c risers slack. Landed and rectified the problem.	Injury Unknown
Date 06.05.2001 (B3271)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: AP	Location Poppitt Sands, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Sx4 13.9 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot launched into strong turbulent conditions, went prone in harness. The glider then stalled and the pilot swung throught the control frame.	Injury Pilot: Cuts to nose and left eyelid - surgery to replace skin. facial bruising.
Date 05.05.2001 (B3267)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Near Doncaster, UK	Wing Type Powered HG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Farmer found pilot in field with serious head injuries.	Injury Pilot: Serious head injuries, unconscious for several days. possible brain injury. right ulna fracture.
Date 05.05.2001 (B3268)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Chirk Airfield, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsillon 3 (Medium) Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Following a tow launch the pilot flew downwind to the landing area had insufficient height to make final turn into wind.	Injury Pilot: Double fracture of right tibia and fibula.
Date 05.05.2001 (B3269)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Reighton, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot seen to be flying well behind the cliff edge. Canopy then seen to enter several severe manouevres before pilot impacted cliff top.	Injury Pilot: Fractured (r) tibia and fibula, (l) ankle, sternum and ribs on left side.
Date 05.05.2001 (B3270)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Westward Ho, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird G Sport Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot became aware that the wind had picked up, could not penetrate forward resulting in him being blown back over the cliff top, cliiped roof of bungalow before crashing.	Injury Pilot: Sprained wrist
Date 01.05.2001 (B3266)	Pilot Female Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Parachute would not pull free from the harness.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 20 September 2026

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