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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 01.11.2011 (B4610)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: CP	Location Bulbarrow, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Addict 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged height loss and wind direction during a 360. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel

Date 28.10.2011 (B4609)	Pilot Female Age: 16 Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Falcon Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Student failed to correct course deviation to left and glider impacted at speed.	Injury Pilot: Fatal

Date 23.10.2011 (B4608)	Pilot Female Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Conil de la Frontera, Spain Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled glider from 10m as a result of slowing glider too much prior to landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr t10, t11 and l3 vertebrae.

Date 15.10.2011 (B4604)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student had perfect flight with good flare and soft landing. Somehow dislocated patella.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated patella.

Date 15.10.2011 (B4607)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P	Location Mere, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had airprox with sailplane. Report filed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 15.10.2011 (B4606)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Godrevy, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot spun glider exiting 360 degree turn due to flying with insufficient airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Fr c6, c7 and t6 vertebrae

Date 15.10.2011 (B4605)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Glyders, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered stall while thermalling. Glider rotated before stalling again. Pilot did not attempt to deploy emergency parachute and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 and l2 vertebrae

Date 11.10.2011 (B4603)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: Under training	Location Lijar Levante, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student suffered mid-air collision with student from another school. Both landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 04.10.2011 (B4602)	Pilot Male Age: 29	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Speedflyer/Miniwing Wing: Gin Bobcat Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot applied too much brake after launch and stalled glider. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Whiplash and sprained knee

Date 02.10.2011 (B4601)	Pilot Female Age: 12 Rating: Under training	Location North Luffenham Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Waterbird Magnum Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Canopy went off line on launch. Launch aborted and student landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Sprained knee

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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