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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 17.05.2010 (B4440)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P	Location Swinside, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach while attempting to land beside car. Caught harness on barb wire fence and fell back into riverbed.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis

Date 15.05.2010 (B4439)	Pilot Male Rating: Under training	Location Chetwynd, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite Maxum Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary While on tow the weak link broke. Pilot landed in a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 09.05.2010 (B4438)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Model Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Ace Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to properly control glider and stalled glider on approach in attempt to miss people in car park.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder

Date 06.05.2010 (B4437)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Under training	Location Church Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew into bush on approach to landing.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back

Date 05.05.2010 (B4436)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Atis 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted reverse launch in strong wind but did not notice knot in lines. Pilot was dragged into fence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.05.2010 (B4435)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Chapel Porth, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was unable to run off speed during slope landing and hit elbow on hillside.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated elbow

Date 21.04.2010 (B4434)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P	Location Grasmere Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered heavy landing having landed in unexpected valley wind.	Injury Pilot: Bruised pelvis

Date 19.04.2010 (B4433)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kobala, Slovenia Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Synergy Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while thermalling. Made corrective input but wing continued to turn back towards hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr t11 vertebra

Date 18.04.2010 (B4432)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Under training	Location Wetton Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Icaro Cyber 2+ Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student allowed glider to overshoot on forward launch and glider pulled student over on to shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr collar bone

Date 18.04.2010 (B4429)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Karma Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student gave excessive input causing glider to turn sharply. On hands up recovery glider surged and student struck slope.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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