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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 13.03.2008 (B4240)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric at low level.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, fr rib.
Date 01.03.2008 (B4239)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: FLPA	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution 26 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, ROS 100	Summary Pilot heard noise and turned to see that prusik loop holding wing tip steering line had slipped allowing line to contact prop causing damage to the line. Pilot landed safely and removed both lines.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 29.02.2008 (B4238)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Agregour, Morocco Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged approach and crashed into disused building at end of landing area.	Injury Pilot: Fr legs, fr pelvis
Date 17.02.2008 (B4237)	Pilot Female Age: 26 Rating: P	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Ares Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Glider stalled on tow at about 60ft. Pilot landed flat on back.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, muscle damage
Date 15.02.2008 (B4236)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Panchgani, India Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot blown back into rotor and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 10.02.2008 (B4235)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Tap o Noth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot slope landed due to poor conditions but was then dragged into rock.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs
Date 28.01.2008 (B4234)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed slightly crosswind on top-landing and had to run off speed. Caught foot in hole and fractured ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 27.01.2008 (B4232)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn G-force Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted a SAT but had a deflation on the opposite side that cravatted causing the wing to rotate in the opposite direction. Pilot did not have height to recover so deployed emergency chute.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 27.01.2008 (B4233)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Novice	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima M Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student overtook glider on launch and dived forward. Wing then dived forward and student hit ground heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 26.01.2008 (B4231)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Freathy, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot misjudged approach resulting in crash into cliffs. Pilot avoided serious injury by deliberately crashing the glider nose first and releasing the base bar prior to impact.	Injury Pilot: Cut face, bruising

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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