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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 03.08.2008 (B4280)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: AP	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Combat Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During competition pilot encountered severe lee-side turbulence. Glider (with lowered sprogs) went weightless and folded. Pilot deployed (34sqm) emergency chute and landed fast but in trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.08.2008 (B4279)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: FLPA	Location Roshe, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Macro	Summary At 400ft pilot parked brakes to adjust trimmers. He then hit turbulence causing the motor to move forward allowing the prop to touch the right brake. This wound on and the prop shattered damaging the cage. The brake then released allowing a safe landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 31.07.2008 (B4278)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Limerstone, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student went off line slightly on landing and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr finger

Date 27.07.2008 (B4276)	Pilot Female Age: 54 Rating: Novice	Location Saddlecombe, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed heavily without flaring having encountered buoyant air while on low hop flight.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle and spr ankle.

Date 27.07.2008 (B4277)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Rowl Gate, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot flew into a tree then fell through branches and hit a wall.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib

Date 26.07.2008 (B4275)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student forgot to flare on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle

Date 23.07.2008 (B4274)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Icaro Incanto	Summary After experiencing some unusual flight behaviour, pilot had glider checked and found several lines were up to 45mm longer than spec. Glider fine now re-trimmed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.07.2008 (B4273)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Discus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot nosed in glider having caught base bar in crop on landing. Conditions known to be gusty, turbulent and windy.	Injury Pilot: Strained arm

Date 15.07.2008 (B4272)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Col de la Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid-air with another paraglider while thermalling.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 15.07.2008 (B4271)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: CP	Location Col de la Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had mid air with another paraglider while thermalling.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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