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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 27.02.2012 (F10579)	Pilot male Age: 34 Rating: Unqualified 6 flights	Location Challow Hill Farm, Oxfordshire, 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 did not respond properly to radio commands and came close to landing on parked cars. Student became entangled with a wing laid out in the take off area but managed to land safely.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 24.02.2012 (F10580)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location Darley Moor, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: powered	Summary Student applied too much throttle while practising starting the engine. Engine fell over backwards.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 19.02.2012 (F10599)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 1000 flights	Location Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Icaro Laminar Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot landed heavily in tailwind due to switching winds in landing field.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 11.02.2012 (F10578)	Pilot male Age: 44	Location El Cuchillo, Lanzarote, ES Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: foot	Summary Student entered a turn and continued turn until colliding with the hillside.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)
Date 01.02.2012 (F10593)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 17 flights	Location Taunton Repack, Taunton, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4	Summary During a deployment and repack session the pilot found his parachute would not deploy. It was found to be incorrectly packed. It was then repacked correctly.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 01.02.2012 (F10577)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Famara, Lanzarote, ES Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to make landing area and was caught in lee of sandbank. Glider dropped wing and pilot did not let go of 'A' frame.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 28.01.2012 (B4615)	Pilot Male Age: 35	Location Crieff, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction TST Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, 1400 ROS 125	Summary Due to poor lookout pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Both pilots came down under one parachute as the other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle
Date 28.01.2012 (B4614)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Crieff, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Cyclone	Summary Due to poor lookout pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Both pilots came down under one parachute as the other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae
Date 28.01.2012 (F10575)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years 100 flights	Location Crieff, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Came down under other pilot's parachute as other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine
Date 28.01.2012 (F10576)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 18 years 60 flights	Location Crieff, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction TST Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot was involved in a mid-air collision with another paramotor and became entangled. Pilot successfully deployed parachute and both pilots came down under the one chute as other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Last updated: 5 July 2026

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