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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
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• Powered PG
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• 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 5 published incident report summaries for Others

Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 11.04.2026 (F19116)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Ozone Hook knife	Summary Ozone Hook knife failed to cut when test carried out. The knife was brand new and had damage to the cutting edge of the blade. Issue reported to manufacturer.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 21.11.2025 (F12993)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 5 years 550 flights (60 flights)	Location Porthmadog, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Other Wing: Flare Prop Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot entered a spiral dive followed by a SAT during which the wing catastrophically tore into two pieces along the chord. With the glider largely uncontrollable and lines briefly contacting the propeller, the pilot deployed their emergency parachute and landed without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 09.11.2025 (F12978)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 36 years (150 flights)	Location Lowca, Whitehaven, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Other Wing: Flare Moustache 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot attempted a downwind tip drag shortly after take off. They were momentarily distracted by a knot in the wingtip line, misjudged their separation from the ground and struck a gulley, coming to a sharp stop.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, lumbar spine
Date 30.07.2025 (F12911)	Pilot Unknown	Location none, none, UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Ozone Angel emergency parachute	Summary Large sewn patch repairs to this emergency parachute were noted by an Emergency Parachute Systems licence holder, during a repack.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 23.03.2025 (F12813)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 2 years 108 flights (33 flights)	Location Carbis Bay dunes, Hayle, UK Wind Strength: + 45km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Other Wing: Flare Moustache Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged their approach to a swoop over the beach, making contact with the base of their harness and unweighting the glider. The pilot lost control of the paraglider which pulled the pilot up the dunes. The pilot impacted on their head and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), cervical spine

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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