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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 02.07.2010 (B4470)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot encountered sink shortly after take-off and landed in a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.06.2010 (B4469)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Under training	Location Bennan, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student was briefed for soaring flight but lost lift and headed to bottom landing. Student landed crosswind with no plf.	Injury Pilot: Badly sprained ankle
Date 27.06.2010 (B4468)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Eyam Edge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered turbulent air on way to landing field. Recovered from a number of collapses but then could not reach chosen field. Forced to land in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.06.2010 (B4467)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Trango XC Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caused glider to spin while attempting to thermal on a demo wing. Pilot deliberately stalled, to avoid rotating into hill and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Sore shoulder
Date 27.06.2010 (B4466) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP	Location Clatter, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Rev Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision while thermalling during a competition. Collision resulted in damage to glider and pilot deployed emergency parachute. Combination of head down attitude and very small parachute resulted in severe injury to the pilot.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae
Date 27.06.2010 (B4465)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Clatter, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Stealth kpl Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision while thermalling during a competition. Pilot attempted to land normally but glider became unstable and pilot crashed.	Injury Pilot: Bruising and muscle strain
Date 25.06.2010 (B4464)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Under training	Location Charlton Clump, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student failed to flare on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 24.06.2010 (B4463)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Chia, Spain Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and collided with wall.	Injury Pilot: Fractured ankle
Date 23.06.2010 (B4462)	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Clubman Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and was still in turn as he hit the ground. Broke leading edge and upright but pilot ok.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.06.2010 (B4461)	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Eype, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Helicopter passed close to paraglider pilots soaring the cliffs.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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