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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 02.05.2009 (B4338)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: Under training	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paratech P25 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to follow flight plan and attempted to soar ridge. Got blown back and turned downwind before impacting heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vetrebrae
Date 01.05.2009 (B4337)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 41-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Whilst clipped in in very windy conditions the nose wires became detached. Pilot was lifted 15ft and flung backwards onto a large rock.	Injury Pilot: Strained ligaments in foot
Date 26.04.2009 (B4336)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary While attempting to reverse launch pilot was lifted by gust/thermal while still facing in a rearward direction. Pilot lost control of glider and crashed from approx 10-15ft.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated ankle
Date 26.04.2009 (B4335)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: CP	Location Crete Road West, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On launching, pilot was dragged sideways across the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, fr scapula and pneumothorax.
Date 25.04.2009 (B4334)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P	Location Gyrn Moelfre, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was caught out by thermal while launching and was dragged into stone wall. Helmet prevented serious injury.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shoulder
Date 20.04.2009 (B4333)	Pilot Female Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Teba, Andalucia, Spain Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Logic (M) Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was caught out by strong thermal gust while attached to glider on launch site. Lifted by thermal and then dragged over rocky ground.	Injury Pilot: Ruptured liver, bruises and grazing.
Date 19.04.2009 (B4332)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Quantum Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On launch the sewn end of a leg strap became entangled in the b/c lines causing a severe turn. Instructor made emergency landing without incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.04.2009 (B4331)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Gyrn Moelfre, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zoom L Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary After top landing in windy conditions the pilot turned to collapse the glider. At this point a gust came through and lifted the pilot slamming him into a parked 4x4 vehicle.	Injury Pilot: Fr l2, l3, l4, and l5. fr pelvis and sternum.
Date 12.04.2009 (B4330)	Pilot Female Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Nant-y-Moel, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilots suffered mid-air collision while ridge soaring at low level. One pilot sustained minor leg injury, the other, significant glider damage.	Injury Pilot: Pulled calf muscle
Date 12.04.2009 (B4329) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP	Location Corndon Hill, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Under investigation.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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