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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 1715 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 15.04.2012 (F10604)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Tinto, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had midair collision with another paraglider and suffered an asymmetric collapse. Pilot had difficulty deploying emergency parachute and later found it had become entangled with the line holding his vario.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 15.04.2012 (F10597)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 19 years	Location Corn Du, Hundred House, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot over braked glider when in accelerated air flow and glider collapsed. On reinflation the glider had a cravat which the pilot pumped out. The glider then stalled and the pilot crashed before he could deploy his parachute.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, thorax
Date 14.04.2012 (F10596)	Pilot female Age: 51 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 31 years 500 flights	Location Torr Head, N Ireland, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Axis Comet Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot landed going backwards in strong winds and attempted to pull A risers to collapse the glider. Glider reinflated and dragged pilot.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 12.04.2012 (F10600)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years	Location Tinto, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden Launch Type: foot	Summary While flying in light thermic conditions, Pilot had mid-air collision with another paraglider. Both landed safely.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 07.04.2012 (F10622)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 15 flights	Location Firle, Newhaven, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Muse 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot applied heavy brakes on approach to bottom landing field and stalled from approx 15m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs, lumbar spine, thorax
Date 06.04.2012 (F10603)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 55 flights	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was dragged by a gust of wind having just collapsed his glider. Pilot's foot became caught in lines.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, thorax
Date 01.04.2012 (F10591)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 149 flights	Location Bradwell Edge, Deryshire, AT Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by rotor on landing in increasing wind strength.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine, lumbar spine
Date 01.04.2012 (F10592)	Pilot female Age: 47 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 99 flights	Location Big Fat Repack, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element	Summary During a deployment and repack practise the pilot found that the emergency parachute would not deploy. It had been packed in the harness incorrectly. Parachute was then correctly fitted by a qualified packer and functioned correctly.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 26.03.2012 (F10595)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 23 years 93 flights	Location Pinnacle Hill, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Makalu Launch Type: foot	Summary After two failed launches the pilot did not realise he had turned to face the glider in the opposite way to his normal routine. On launching the third time the pilot found he had a full twist in his risers. The pilot was lifted by a gust and crashed sideways.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 22.03.2012 (F10585)	Pilot male Age: 30 Rating: Trainee 33 flights	Location Trainon, Laragne, FR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha Launch Type: foot	Summary Student had good flight but made final turn in to wind a little too late. Landed with slight pendulum.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Last updated: 5 July 2026

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