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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 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

Date 17.04.2011 (B4548)	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: P	Location Malverns, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to carry out adequate pre flight check and turned wrong way on reverse launch. Pilot lost control and caught foot on another glider causing some damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 10.04.2011 (B4547)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Myreton, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Prion Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height while soaring and failed to account for shape of hill/slope. Landed heavily on rock.	Injury Pilot: Crushed t11 vertebra

Date 08.04.2011 (B4546)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Under training	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to get fully in to wind for landing and also failed to flare. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractured foot

Date 28.03.2011 (B4545)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Under training	Location Moel Feity, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student made normal flight but stumbled on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr finger

Date 25.03.2011 (B4544)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Sunrise landing site, Nepal	Wing Type Wing: Airwave	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and came in too high. Collided with wall.	Injury Pilot: Fractured foot

Date 22.03.2011 (B4543)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: Under training	Location Heol Senni, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student misjudged approach and struck foot on rocks.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr heel.

Date 21.03.2011 (B4542)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: Under training	Location Clench Common, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Team 5 Green Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off-line while on tow and did not correct course when prompted. Winch operator cut power and student landed heavily from 5m.	Injury Pilot: Torn knee ligaments

Date 20.03.2011 (B4541)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Beer Head, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision 5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot made good landing having lost height while attempting to soar. Lost footing on pebble beach and fell on arm.	Injury Pilot: Fractured humerus

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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