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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 23.05.2007 (B4159)	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Internal velcro had worn hole in internal airbag rendering airbag ineffective.	Injury Unknown
Date 23.05.2007 (B4160)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 80ft in windy, gusty conditions. Glider recovered at 40ft with full twist in risers. glider now being blown back, pitching and rolling violently. stability gained just as pilot touches down.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.05.2007 (B4158)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: Novice	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot ran out of landing area and decided to jump a stone wall rather than land crosswind. Pilot hit wall.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 20.05.2007 (B4156)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus	Summary Pilot was sat down clipped in with wing laid out as wind was v light. Sudden gust of 25mph and 90 degrees off prevailing, lifted glider and pulled pilot down slope.	Injury Pilot: 2 fr vertebra, fr ribs, punc lung.
Date 20.05.2007 (B4157)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Xc132 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary On running down hill for take off in light conditions, A frame clipped hill and caused glider to nosedive into hill damaging the upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.05.2007 (B4155)	Pilot Female Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Cabo Santa Pola, Spain Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Primax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched glider in strong gusty conditions. Glider jerked violently to one side causing shoulder damage before pilot was dragged.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder
Date 07.05.2007 (B4154)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Kobala, Slovenia Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Grid Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered collapse resulting in spiral with risers crossed. Deployed emergency chute which became tangled with main glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis, fr ribs
Date 05.05.2007 (B4152)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Glyders, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot has no recollection of incident due to head injury.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, concussion, bruising
Date 05.05.2007 (B4153)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Glyders, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Magic Fr3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse in turbulent conditions. Glider recovered with cravatte leading to spiral. pilot deployed emergency chute but landed among rocks sustaining bruising.	Injury Pilot: Bruises
Date 04.05.2007 (B4151)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Glider went off-line slightly on tow. Student did not release A frame when glider struck ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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