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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 26.08.2007 (B4200)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: P	Location Corndon, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Trango 2.1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot fell out of thermal while close to hillside and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, internal injuries

Date 26.08.2007 (B4199)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Truleigh Hill Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary While on launch run during a forward launch, canopy suffered asymmetric and pulled student over onto shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr clavicle

Date 26.08.2007 (B4198)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Java 155 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot went off-line on tow and crashed into trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 25.08.2007 (B4197)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Cassino, Italy Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Glider stalled at 3m while on finals and pilot landed heavily in seated position.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra

Date 25.08.2007 (B4196)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes Extralight 147 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot forgot to put tension back on glider having just landed to adjust battens.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm

Date 24.08.2007 (B4195)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student tripped on landing.	Injury Pilot: Cuts, grazed knee

Date 23.08.2007 (B4194)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Saltburn Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to clear a transverse ridge on final approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra

Date 18.08.2007 (B4193)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was unable to bleed off enough speed (possible tail wind) and nosed in.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus

Date 11.08.2007 (B4192)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered symmetric collapse at 50ft and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra t12, fr ankle

Date 10.08.2007 (B4191)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Kirk Fell, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot did not see low voltage power lines on landing and struck them when 2m from ground. No injuries but equipment destroyed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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