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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 15.02.2009 (B4310)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Butser West, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z-One Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air with large scale model but landed safely and without injury.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.02.2009 (B4309)	Pilot Male Age: 70 Rating: CP	Location Cwmtydu, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Super Space 27 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caught out by reduced lift due to wind being further off than expected. Pilot lost height and was forced to land on rocks at base of cliff.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel, bruising.
Date 11.02.2009 (B4308)	Pilot Male Age: 73 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, west slope., UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to flare on straight hop flight landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Damaged ankle
Date 30.01.2009 (B4307)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Las Candelas, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Mojo 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bailey, Top 80	Summary On attempting to warm up engine, pilot applied too much throttle (due to unfamiliar mechanism on hired motor) causing engine to rotate about pilots knee. Prop struck hand.	Injury Pilot: Severed index and middle fingers.
Date 10.01.2009 (B4306)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Les Tieilles, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot altered approach at last minute due to glider ground handling in chosen approach path. Resulted in low turn and probable out of wind landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr t1 vertebra
Date 02.01.2009 (B4305)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Farway, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was turned into hill having encountered unexpected turbulence.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel.
Date 30.12.2008 (B4304)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Barkin Fell, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot encountered severe sink immediately after takeoff and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder
Date 22.12.2008 (B4303)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Hells Mouth, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot stalled glider at approx 15ft while on tow and landed heavily on back.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 02.11.2008 (B4302)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: Novice	Location Ligzira, Morocco	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet Spirit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student let off brakes on shallow slope launch causing glider to dive forward and student struck boulder with foot.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 26.10.2008 (B4301)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP	Location Rotang Pass, India Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Explorer Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was caught out by change of expected wind direction on approach. Elected to land beside river as only available option. Glider landed in river and pilot was dragged into fast flowing water. Dragged 200m before able to escape.	Injury Pilot: Bruising

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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