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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 1248 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 19.09.2002 (B3544)	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Whilst flying with nearly full speed bar on the pilot noticed that one of the speed bar lines had become free of its pulley. On inspection he noticed that the pin holding the pulley had gradually worked its way loose.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.09.2002 (B3539)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Downcourt, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Booster Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled canopy whilst in big ears, canopy dropped back 30 degrees, pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Bruising concussion
Date 15.09.2002 (B3540)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Downcourt, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Booster L Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Canopy stalled whilst in big ears, pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Severe bruising to the buttocks, concussion.
Date 15.09.2002 (B3541)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Abington West, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Phelix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilkot attempting to lose height to land by s turning. Failed to turn into wind on the final beat and impacted the ground hard.	Injury Pilot: Ankle & leg break
Date 15.09.2002 (B3542)	Pilot Female	Location Addleborough, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima	Summary Student strained muscles in her leg whilst attempting to launch.	Injury Pilot: Twisted knee-sprain
Date 10.09.2002 (B3536)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Chamonix, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xact Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Whilst attempting to utilise small strong thermal lift canopy suffered a collapse which developed into a spin. Pilot unable to correct situation deployed reserve which did not open fully, impacted ground heavily.	Injury Pilot: Cut elbow and bruised ribs
Date 08.09.2002 (B3533)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Nont Sarah, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Allegra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempting to slope land with insufficient airspeed resulted in the canopys right wing collapsing followed by a spin into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Right shoulder dislocated, to calderdale nhs trust
Date 08.09.2002 (B3534)	Pilot Female Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FLYING PLANET Astir Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary PG pilot concerned that a helicopter flying downwind of the ridge she was soaring on passed too close.	Injury Unknown
Date 08.09.2002 (B3535)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Helicopter pssed behind pilots soaring ridge.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.09.2002 (B3531)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Haig Pit, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Saphir Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During a top landing attempt the pilot realised that he was in danger of landing close to some parked cars at the downwind end of the field. At the last minute he decided to try to land behind the cars, but was unable to turn quickly enough to avoid them.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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