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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 18.04.2003 (B3619)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Marlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 16.04.2003 (B3616)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Beachy Head, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 & l2
Date 15.04.2003 (B3615)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: Novice	Location High Edge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Cut knee
Date 08.04.2003 (B3612)	Pilot Male	Location Walla Crag, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Chest, pelvic, damage. resuce called for airlift
Date 08.04.2003 (B3613)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Switzerland Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot took off into crap conditions - too windy.	Injury Pilot: Crush damage to lower back and neck. severe damage to l1. internal injuries.
Date 06.04.2003 (B3611)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: Novice	Location Barton Aerodrome, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Corel Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Cut chin
Date 05.04.2003 (B3608)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Heol Senni, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird G-Sport Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken right ankle
Date 05.04.2003 (B3609)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Atis 28 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Ankle, not specified.
Date 04.04.2003 (B3607)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: Novice	Location Telegraph Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Tonic Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr r tibia, chipped toe.
Date 03.04.2003 (B3605)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Gelligaer, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Dislocated right shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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