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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 09.04.2007 (B4130)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Bee Sands, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Grid Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot dislocated shoulder while collapsing glider after landing.	Injury Pilot: Dislo shoulder

Date 08.04.2007 (B4129)	Pilot Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 27 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student sat down on landing and twisted ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle

Date 07.04.2007 (B4128)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student was caught out by gust while preparing to launch and was dragged through nettles.	Injury Pilot: Grazes and muscle strain

Date 06.04.2007 (B4124)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Butser North, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Plus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid-air with model aircraft. No damage sustained. .	Injury Unknown

Date 06.04.2007 (B4125)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student lifted legs during practice inflation run and came down on backside.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back

Date 06.04.2007 (B4126)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot struck fence post with foot while ridge soaring.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib/fib

Date 06.04.2007 (B4127)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was dragged on landing in strong winds having failed to properly collapse glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr rib

Date 05.04.2007 (B4123)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Plus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilots suffered mid-air while ridge soaring close to ridge top and became entangled in each others gliders. Landed heavily but with no injuries. very lucky!	Injury Unknown

Date 25.03.2007 (B4122)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: Novice	Location Nid Daigue, Morocco Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric on landing approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle

Date 24.03.2007 (B4121)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Aerodyne Dune Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot did not launch glider straight and subsequent gust lifted him and propelled him sideways while facing uphill. After a couple of second he came down heavily, damaging his knee and was then dragged a further 20-30m.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia, dislo knee

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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