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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 24.09.2011 (B4598)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Under training	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to execute proper flare on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 20.09.2011 (B4597)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Annecy, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot approached down wind and crashed into trees and house. Radio found to be on wrong frequency.	Injury Pilot: Injured back, ribs and concussion.

Date 18.09.2011 (B4596)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Under training	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Logic Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to follow flight plan and flew over trees. Realising he would not clear the trees he executed tree landing procedure.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 13.09.2011 (B4595)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: Under training	Location Signal DBisanne, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Cruzer 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student encountered unexpected sink on approach and glider caught on low voltage power line.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 12.09.2011 (B4594)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Under training	Location Planfait, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Aeros Style 2 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student lost control of glider while ridge soaring. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Chipped teeth

Date 09.09.2011 (B4593)	Pilot Female Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Ager, Spain Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Raven Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider on launch and was dragged.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, perf lung, cust and grazes.

Date 01.09.2011 (B4592)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P	Location Black Hill, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Hang Glider Rigid Wing: Atos Atos VR Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed out in what he thought was a flat field. Field turned out not to be flat and landed heavily downslope.	Injury Pilot: Bruising

Date 29.08.2011 (B4591)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: Under training	Location St Catherines, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot stumbled on take off as could not keep up with wing.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus

Date 28.08.2011 (B4590) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Newgale Beach, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew in area of turbulent air in lee of outcrop. Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse and collided with cliff face.	Injury Pilot: Fatal

Date 23.08.2011 (B4589)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Little Cloud Spiruline	Summary During daily inspection pilot noticed unusual wear to inside of riser where it attaches to harness attachment karabiner. Possible mismatch between light weight krab and riser.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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