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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 1345 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 26.09.2003 (B3740)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: AP	Location Tailbridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Airprox with Tornado.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.09.2003 (B3739)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Tan Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet Sirius Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot caught out by gusts while ground handing. Lifted off ground then dumped down heavily.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated left ankle.
Date 20.09.2003 (B3738)	Pilot Male	Location Swanage, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Pilot landed in sea (20cm deep).	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.09.2003 (B3737)	Pilot Unknown	Location Clough Head, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Unknown pilot rotored in after getting blown back.	Injury Pilot: Fractured tibia and fibula.
Date 17.09.2003 (B3735)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: AP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot crashed while flying fast close to the hill. Showing off!	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebra, t12.
Date 17.09.2003 (B3736)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Pilgrims Farm, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Lift 26 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student encountered sink prior to landing and landed heavily without PLF.	Injury Pilot: Possible tendon/ligament damage.
Date 14.09.2003 (B3733)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Tow Scar, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Pheron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew into cliff face.	Injury Pilot: Dl wrist, burns and bruises.
Date 14.09.2003 (B3734)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Moel Acre, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vulcan Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Airprox with helicopter.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.09.2003 (B3732)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Beachy Head, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted 360 to close to the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr right ankle
Date 09.09.2003 (B3731)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird A Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Airprox with helicopter.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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