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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 1715 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 04.06.2012 (F10621)	Pilot male Age: 26 Rating: P 70 flights	Location Mountain Ash, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and initiated 'S' turns to lose height. Glider began to spin and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 02.06.2012 (F10620)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 302 flights	Location Swanborough, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Litespeed S4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged wind on landing and glider stalled from 2m. Pilot did not release the uprights.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 28.05.2012 (F10619)	Pilot male Age: 48	Location Stanage, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to control glider during revers launch close to cliff top and fell over cliff.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 28.05.2012 (F10618)	Pilot male Age: 77 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years 205 flights	Location Eype, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Hornet Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was flying too close to cliff edge and glider snagged causing pilot to crash onto side of cliff.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 27.05.2012 (F10617)	Pilot female Age: 37 30 flights	Location Loose Bottom, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: foot	Summary Student on CP course failed to turn away from the ridge and impacted cross slope.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 25.05.2012 (F10616)	Pilot male Age: 37 Flying Experience: 15 years 38 flights	Location The String, Aaran, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student used excessive brake on reverse launch and was lifted off his feet. Student swung round and was dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 25.05.2012 (F10634)	Pilot male Age: 54 4 flights	Location Batchlane Farm, Somerset, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot started motor but it went to full revs knocking him over. Pilot was struck by prop.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 22.05.2012 (F10615)	Pilot Rating: P 100 flights	Location Rhos Dirion, Talgarth Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bi Golden 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged wind on approach to top landing and landed heavily crosswind.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs Passenger: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture) feet, legs

Date 21.05.2012 (F10614)	Pilot male Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years	Location Merthyr, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Bi-Beta Launch Type: foot	Summary In a rush to get launched in decreasing winds the pilot failed to clip himself onto the tandem glider. Pilot held on to spreaders until landing. Never more than 2 - 3m off the ground.	Injury Pilot: unhurt Passenger: unhurt

Date 13.05.2012 (F10612)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years	Location Rodney Stoke, Somerset, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Talon Launch Type: foot	Summary Because of windy and turbulent conditions, pilot could not make normal landing field and landed in a field with cattle.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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