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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).

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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
15.09.2007

(B4210)
Pilot
Male

Age:
50

Rating:
Novice
Location
Muggery,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Apco
Prima

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student suffered asymmetric while on top to bottom. Turned heavily into hill.
Injury
Pilot:
5 fr vertebrae
Date
12.09.2007

(B4209)
Pilot
Male

Age:
60

Rating:
Novice
Location
Ballygown Arran,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-8 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
FreeX
Joker

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student fell over after glider inflated asymmetrically .
Injury
Pilot:
Pulled shoulder muscle
Date
12.09.2007

(B4208)
Pilot
Male

Age:
36

Rating:
CP
Location
Plan Fait Annecy,
France

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Icaro
Incanto

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot had asymmetric collapse while thermalling. Over correction lead to spin and spiral. pilot deployed emergency chute and landed safely.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
11.09.2007

(B4207)
Pilot
Male

Age:
70

Rating:
P
Location
Llangollen,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Nova
Carbon

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
On launch, wing came up unevenly resulting in the pilot being dragged.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr fibula
Date
09.09.2007

(B4206)
Pilot
Male

Age:
46

Rating:
Novice
Location
Caburn,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Pegas
Arcus 3

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Student struggled to ground glider after good flight and landing. Was then pulled over.
Injury
Pilot:
Torn muscle
Date
08.09.2007

(B4205)
Pilot
Female

Age:
42

Rating:
Novice
Location
Hells Mouth,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Mojo

Launch Type:
Foot (Assisted)

Summary
Student stumbled when turning to regain control of wing that had gone off to one side during reverse launch.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr elbow, knee ligament damage
Date
06.09.2007

(B4204)
Pilot
Male

Age:
49

Rating:
P
Location
Tailbridge,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Powered PG

Wing:
Skywalk
Meskal 2

Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
black devil

Summary
Having released control handle to adjust seat, pilot noticed that prop had severed control handle causing some damage to prop.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
05.09.2007

(B4203)
Pilot
Male

Age:
57

Rating:
P
Location
Bell Hill,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Niviuk
Hook

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot was caught out by gust during reverse launch which dragged him back into a parked car before glider brought under control.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
02.09.2007

(B4202)

Formal Report
Pilot
Male

Age:
46

Rating:
P
Location
Woldingham,
UK

Wind Strength:
24-32 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
FreeX
Arcane

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.
Injury
Pilot:
Fatal.
Date
27.08.2007

(B4201)
Pilot
Male

Age:
34

Rating:
P
Location
Cambridge aerotow,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Airbourne
C2

Launch Type:
Aero Tow

Summary
Pilot flew too far down wind and was caught out by rotor from building. Pilot was preoccupied with attempting to dump 1m of line having earlier had a weak link failure in thermic air.
Injury
Pilot:
Cut chin

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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