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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 21.03.2007 (B4119)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed in trees having misjudged conditions.	Injury Unknown
Date 21.03.2007 (B4120)	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Discovery 195	Summary Pilot was thrown over backwards while rigging hang glider in breezy conditions. Glider blew back damaging another wing and a car.	Injury Pilot: Concussion , bruising
Date 11.03.2007 (B4118)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Repack issues. Please refer to IR for details.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.02.2007 (B4117)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Ibitluna, Brazil Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot spun glider applying too much control on final turn into wind.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 17.02.2007 (B4116)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P	Location Lords Seat, UK Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Unknown	Summary 2 paraglider pilots almost had mid-air due to one having made a downwind turn at the end of the ridge.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.02.2007 (B4115)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Kennel Farm, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Dingo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student sprained ankle while ground handling.	Injury Pilot: Sp ankle
Date 03.02.2007 (B4114)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location Fifty Cent, South Africa Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Boomerang Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was caught out by increasing winds. Suffered frontal collapse while on half bar in attempt to get forward. recovered frontal with cravat and glider entered spiral. recovered but entered cascade so threw emergency chute landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, fr pelvis
Date 01.02.2007 (B4113)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot crashed into tree having been lifted off hill in rotory conditions with one wing stalled.	Injury Unknown
Date 27.01.2007 (B4112)	Pilot Female Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Firle West, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Tonic Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student got too close to hill on top to bottom flight and flew into tree, falling heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 22.01.2007 (B4111)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Grenoliers, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student flared too late and stumbled while attempting to run off landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia and fibula

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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