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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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 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
Date 19.10.2007 (B4218)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary student completed perfect top to bottom flight but caught foot on landing.	Injury Pilot: Torn ankle ligaments and tendons
Date 07.10.2007 (B4217)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Tempest Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot attached tow line to small metal loops on harness designed to hold front mounted emergency parachute. One of the loops snapped during tow.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.10.2007 (B4216)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Berwyn Mountains, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Thrust Hp Launch Type: Powered Engine: Sperwill, Easy 100	Summary Weight shift arm failed due to shearing of m8 capscrew (recently checked). Pilot was able to land with difficulty.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.10.2007 (B4215)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Blease Fell, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot overshot landing area and skimmed across parked car before landing causing minor damage to the car.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.10.2007 (B4214)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student made too sharp a turn immediately after take off and turned back into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 21.09.2007 (B4213)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse due to turbulent thermic conditions. Glider recovered with cravat then entered spiral. Pilot deployed emergency chute bruising foot on landing.	Injury Pilot: Bruised foot
Date 19.09.2007 (B4212)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot experienced switching wind conditions on approach to land causing him to alter approach direction. Wind changed again and pilot span glider attempting to get back into wind.	Injury Pilot: Dislo elbow, fr elbow, detached ligaments and fr vertebra.
Date 15.09.2007 (B4211)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Chabre Laragne, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary While thermalling, pilot entered spiral and did not recover before impact.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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