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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 1840 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

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

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

Last updated: 15 October 2026

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