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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 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.
Date 05.04.2009 (B4328)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Grove, Wantage, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction 29 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Airfer, Titan	Summary Pilot dislocated knee during initial takeoff run on paramotor launch. Previous unrelated dislocations believed to have weakened knee.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated knee
Date 05.04.2009 (B4327)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Tal-y-Bont, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on hill side while ridge soaring. Glider turned into hill.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to lower back
Date 05.04.2009 (B4326)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary tape loop on 3 ring circus had become larks footed around tow ring and would not release. Winch cut line and pilot managed to undo larks foot and release. Able to replicate if slack allowed in system. Pilot changed tow release.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.04.2009 (B4325)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Bulgaria	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Under investigation.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 31.03.2009 (B4324)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK	Wing Type Wing: Gin Bolero 3	Summary During first inspection of new glider a number of b line cascades were found to have been incorrectly fitted. Refitted on site by instructor.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.03.2009 (B4323)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Montellano, Spain Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Ellus 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched aware of rain clouds in near distance. On launching was lifted 50-70ft by gust and was unable to penetrate using bar and ears. Prepared for inevitable rotor landing and carried out plf falling from 20-25ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel
Date 22.03.2009 (B4320)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: Under training	Location The Terrace, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student collided with ridge while ridge soaring.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra
Date 22.03.2009 (B4321)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Stratus 7 GS Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric collapse at low level on windy, turbulent day. Collapse turned into cascade and pilot deployed emergency chute. Chute opened just prior to impact and absorbed some of the impact energy.	Injury Pilot: Bruised pelvis

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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