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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 18.01.2010 (B4410)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: CP	Location Tappa, India Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was blown back over high ridge and opted to land in valley behind. Misjudged wind and landed heavily downwind.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 17.01.2010 (B4409)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Milk Hill Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros KPL Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged height and wind speed on approach. Nosed in on landing.	Injury Pilot: Bruised eye
Date 09.01.2010 (B4408)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location Porterville, South Africa Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered severe turbulence while searching for themal on xc. Glider collapsed at tips and sustained cravat leading to spiral. Pilot deployed parachute and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Bruised foot
Date 04.01.2010 (B4407)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location UK	Wing Type	Summary On inspecting paramotor unit, pilot found significant wear to double D shackle caused by cantilever effect.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.12.2009 (B4406)	Pilot Male Age: 76 Rating: P	Location High and Over, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Brontes Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and landed heavily while still turning into wind.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 28.12.2009 (B4405)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Attempting to bottom land the pilot flew into orographic cloud and became disoriented. Pilot collided with a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.12.2009 (B4404)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Dunstable Downs, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot got pulled back while attempting to collapse his wing in gusty conditions. Wing eventually came down over two passers-by causing one of them to sustain a cut mouth.	Injury Pilot: Cut gum/lip
Date 08.12.2009 (B4403)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P	Location Nuthurst, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: Powered Engine: MiniPlane	Summary On landing, clip on pilots glove (for holding gloves together) became caught on cage netting. Pilot could not release brake. Landed safely and cut glove clips off!	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.11.2009 (B4402)	Pilot Male	Location Isle of Wight, UK Wind Strength: + 48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Voodoo Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Untrained pilot launched glider in very strong winds while attached to a landrover by a length of rope. Glider rose quickly before being ripped off pilot by the wind. Pilot fell sustaining serious back injuries.	Injury Pilot: Multiple spinal fractures
Date 15.11.2009 (B4401)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: AP	Location Ben Bhraggie, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airborne Fun 190 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Wind dropped and pilot decided to bottom land. Discovered harness zip jammed so decided to land on wheels. Landed ok but one wheel hit hole and stopped abruptly.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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