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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 30.07.2011 (B4581)	Pilot Female Age: 25 Rating: Under training	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled while running with canopy overhead.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated (and relocated) shoulder

Date 29.07.2011 (B4579)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Sprint Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged conditions on approach to top landing. Landed fast and was pulled over.	Injury Pilot: Fr radius

Date 28.07.2011 (B4578)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot got out of position and caught in turbulent air. Crashed into barb-wire fence.	Injury Pilot: Bruised leg, cuts and scratches.

Date 27.07.2011 (B4577)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Just after take off one of the chest strap buckles popped open. It was found to have jammed in the open position. Pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.07.2011 (B4576)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Bethel, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Doodlebug	Summary Rear wire broke during aborted take-off.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.07.2011 (B4575)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP	Location Magilligan, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Bi Beta 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Passenger caught foot on landing and injured knee.	Injury Pilot: Torn knee tendon

Date 23.07.2011 (B4574)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP	Location Cairn Coedog, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Sprint Evo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height while attempting to thermal resulting in 360 degree turn too close to the ridge. Pilot struck rock with underside of harness.	Injury Pilot: Fr l3 vertebra

Date 11.07.2011 (B4572)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell, UK	Wing Type Wing: Ozone Delta	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse in rough conditions at low level leading to cascade and spin. Pilot crashed unhurt into bushes.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 11.07.2011 (B4573)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Eden 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On approach to landing pilot suspects he may have encountered rotor turbulence. Pilot landed heavily from 40ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis and vertebrae. dislocated shoulder.

Date 10.07.2011 (B4571)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Swinside, Lorton Valley, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 8 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Flying slowly to degrade glide on final approach to small field, pilot stalled lhs and spun into ground.	Injury Pilot: Ruptured bladder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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