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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 16.11.2010 (B4520)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: Under training	Location Ronda la Vieja, Spain Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Anakis Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary On final approach student allowed the glider to pitch forward. He then over corrected resulting in a diving pendulum to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured pelvis
Date 14.11.2010 (B4519)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered severe turbulence on approach to land, possibly due to wave. Glider surged and pilot was swung into ground.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebra and heel.
Date 14.11.2010 (B4518)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: Under training	Location Talfyndd, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student inflated glider but caught foot on tussock of grass while turning.	Injury Pilot: Fractured fib and tib
Date 31.10.2010 (B4517)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: AP	Location Lords seat, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Combat L Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot rigged in long grass and did not notice batten going over the leading edge instead of under. Caused turn in flight and pilot landed quickly.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.10.2010 (B4516)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location Dharamshala, India Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Factor Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot made poor judgement while attempting to land in unfamiliar area. Had to make tight, low turn to avoid power lines and crashed into parked car.	Injury Pilot: Fracture l1 vertebra
Date 20.10.2010 (B4514)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Valle de Abdalajas, Spain Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Lightspeed Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was flying too slow and misstimed flare when attempting first ever upslope, crosswind landing. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractured humerus
Date 20.10.2010 (B4515)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location St Agnes, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost footing on landing and was dragged into car.	Injury Pilot: Fractured pelvis
Date 17.10.2010 (B4512)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Under training	Location Challow Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Dudek Nemo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off line on tow and stumbled on landing.	Injury Pilot: Strained shoulder
Date 17.10.2010 (B4513)	Pilot Female Age: 63 Rating: P	Location Nth Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Harley 288 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractured fibula
Date 16.10.2010 (B4511)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Carrock Fell, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was seen to be initiating alternating left and right turns, possibly attempting wingovers, while ridge soaring. He then suffered an asymmetric collapse. The glider rotated a number of times before crashing into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Severe head injuries, fr vertebra, fr collar bone.

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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