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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 08.08.2010 (B4479)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Axis Vega 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered mid-air collision with another paraglider. Luckily, both landed safely as contact was minimal.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.08.2010 (B4480)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location N Ireland, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on approach.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae
Date 27.07.2010 (B4478)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Harlech, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Ibex Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot did not manage to get airborne in prevailing conditions and crashed into wall at end of launch area.	Injury Pilot: Fractured heel and wrist.
Date 23.07.2010 (B4476)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Selsley, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered black out while on final approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Grazed face
Date 23.07.2010 (B4477)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Perran Sands, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed heavily while still in turn, having avoided another pilot who had lifted his wing into the air close to chosen landing spot.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 19.07.2010 (B4475)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: Under training	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 15m agl. Glider dived on recovery and pilot hit the ground hard.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder and leg
Date 17.07.2010 (B4474)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Xtralite 164 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary While thermalling pilot noticed velcro holding parachute was coming undone. Pilot attempted to prevent chute falling out but was unable and chute deployed. Pilot landed heavily in head down position sustaining cuts and bruises.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to arms and shoulder. cut eye.
Date 11.07.2010 (B4473)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot took off after having ground handled for some time. He discovered that the leg straps had slackened to the point he could not get into the harness without releasing the controls and forcing himself back into the seat.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.07.2010 (B4472)	Pilot Female Age: 22 Rating: Under training	Location Signal de Bisanne, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student made uncommitted run in light conditions and collided with a tree.	Injury Pilot: Bruising and grazes
Date 03.07.2010 (B4471)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing U2 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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