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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).

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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 01.06.2011 (B4558)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric while at low level and impacted hard. Conditions had become thermic and turbulent.	Injury Pilot: Fr vetrbrae, fr femur and fr ribs.
Date 29.05.2011 (B4557)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P	Location Plan Fait, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot slowed glider too much during fast slope landing and stalled glider at approx 2m landing heavily on arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr radius and ulna
Date 21.05.2011 (B4555)	Pilot Male	Location Barton on Sea, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Spider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and made downwind landing, ending up waist deep in sea.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.05.2011 (B4556)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Barton on Sea, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while approaching cliff top landing area. Ended up in rotor and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus and dislocated shoulder.
Date 16.05.2011 (B4554)	Pilot Male Age: 59	Location UK	Wing Type Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Severe cracks found in axle mountings on Koch winch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.05.2011 (B4552)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Chale Terrace, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach in weakening conditions and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula, dislocated ankle.
Date 11.05.2011 (B4553)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P	Location Shrivenham, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Tow yoke came apart at approx 600ft. Pilot released and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.04.2011 (B4551)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Rating: Under training	Location Rabon, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to flare after low hop and did not run on landing so fell over.	Injury Pilot: Fractured heel.
Date 24.04.2011 (B4550)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Clough Head, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered major collapse and stall having failed to notice brake lines knotted to C lines during pre-flight checks.	Injury Pilot: Fr l2 vertebra. fr wrist. sprained ankle.
Date 23.04.2011 (B4549)	Pilot Male Age: 51	Location Clench Common, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Hang Glider Rigid Wing: Atos VR Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot aborted initial landing field due to horses and landed in crop. Spooked horse but no harm done.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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