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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 15.10.2010 (B4510)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P	Location Firle, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Antea Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was dragged into wall in gusty conditions.	Injury Pilot: Head injuries, bruising.

Date 02.10.2010 (B4509)	Pilot Female Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Horcum, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while attempting to launch in strengthening wind conditions. Pilot was pulled by wing and twisted knee.	Injury Pilot: Torn knee ligaments

Date 01.10.2010 (B4508)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location St Andre, France	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient XC2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered unintentional parachute deployment while on approach. Landed in/through tree without injury.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 28.09.2010 (B4507)	Pilot Male Age: 21	Location Cox Tor, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while being taught by his father who was not an instructor. Pilot flew into hill downwind.	Injury Pilot: Fractures to femur and both humerus.

Date 26.09.2010 (B4505)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was overflown by police helicopter with a height difference of approx 200ft.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 26.09.2010 (B4506)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn U2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered spin at low level while flying tandem landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Chipped vertebra

Date 21.09.2010 (B4504)	Pilot Male Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Roadster Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Micro	Summary Student attempted to take off with control line wrapped around riser. Powered off and aborted launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 19.09.2010 (B4502)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: P	Location Dungiven West, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paramania Rev 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to top land due to increasing wind. Touched down but was dragged into boulder.	Injury Pilot: 3 fractured ribs and collapsed lung.

Date 19.09.2010 (B4503)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: CP	Location Otivar, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged height on approach and in bleeding off height encountered severe sink. Pilot hit roadside barrier.	Injury Pilot: Fractured spine

Date 16.09.2010 (B4501)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location St Agnes, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while on approach. Struck rock.	Injury Pilot: Fractured knee

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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