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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 1737 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 02.12.2007 (B4228)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Elco Cheo, Spain Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student turned wrong way on approach and ended up in lee of small hill. Landed into wind but heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus

Date 14.11.2007 (B4227)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Maiden Castle, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu medium Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot practising low level 360s, misjudged height and speed and crashed into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, fr leg, dislo foot

Date 14.11.2007 (B4226)	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Top Secret Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot stalled glider attempting to take off in very light wind without required airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts to arm

Date 05.11.2007 (B4225)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Western Bowl, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level in windy and gusty conditions. Possibility of rotor due wind being slightly off hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr legs

Date 01.11.2007 (B4224)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Baza, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level having taken off in thermic breeze that was 90 degrees off the prevailing wind. Probable cause, rotor.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow

Date 27.10.2007 (B4223)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Bir, India Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered cravat and had 2 failed attempts to deploy emergency chute then managed to recover glider and land.	Injury Pilot: Mild shock

Date 21.10.2007 (B4222)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student failed to release A risers on launch causing front collapse. Student fell forward onto shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Strained shoulder

Date 21.10.2007 (B4221)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Perche smart Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student mistimed landing while attempting slope landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr lower leg

Date 20.10.2007 (B4220)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student gave excessive input on one control resulting in low level lock-out.	Injury Pilot: Lower back

Date 20.10.2007 (B4219)	Pilot Female Age: 15 Rating: Novice	Location Chetwynd, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Parascender Wing: Sportlite maxum 28 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Line break on tandem round resulted in heavy landing and serious injuries to passengers.	Injury Pilot: Fr femur

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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