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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 02.08.2003 (B3703)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.08.2003 (B3704)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed on uneven ground and strained ankle.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle.
Date 31.07.2003 (B3701)	Pilot Unknown	Location Lejaire, Wendling, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Waterbird Magnum Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.07.2003 (B3698)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Dolomites, Corvara, Italy Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse on approach and crashed into parked cars.	Injury Pilot: Whiplash, laceration to left elbow.
Date 27.07.2003 (B3699)	Pilot Female Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Hornet Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered defaltion low over trees. Pilot crashed into trees then fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 23.07.2003 (B3695)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Lobden, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebrae, l1 and l2.
Date 16.07.2003 (B3693)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: Novice	Location Folly Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FLYING PLANET Astair Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric collapse while on soaring beat and crashed into slope.	Injury Pilot: Fr (compressed) vertebrae (2). uncertain if caused by this incident.
Date 14.07.2003 (B3691)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured 2 fingers, one of which also dislocated. both right hand.
Date 06.07.2003 (B3686)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Soul Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis (two fr).
Date 06.07.2003 (B3687)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Novice	Location Glyders, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled while walking across hill. None flying accident.	Injury Pilot: Torn ligaments to knee

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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