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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 04.06.2002 (B3441)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following launch the pilot noticed that the right control line was looped around another line. The pilot was able to slope land.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.06.2002 (B3443)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Scirocco Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary The pilot followed ridge to a position in which the ridge and wind direction were almost parallel. As he was unable to penetrate back upwind the pilot attempted to land on a small grassy area, turbulence led to a frontal collapse pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: Cuts, bruises, muscle & ligament damage, spine trauma ambulance to a & e aberistwith
Date 01.06.2002 (B3439)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Malaku Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During landing the canopys wing tip fell onto a pilot. The pilot then noticed a line trapped in the Brummel hook on the speed system. The line had been damaged by the hook. The diameter of the gap in the hooks was smaller than line diameter.	Injury Unknown
Date 31.05.2002 (B3436)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Mount Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Dynasty Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Three pilots on converging flight paths non of them took appropriate avoiding action resulting in them narrowley missing each other.	Injury Unknown
Date 31.05.2002 (B3437)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Le Reward, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged suitability of field for landing following a cross country flight, narrowly avoided power lines and an electric fence, and in the process caused the glider to spin 180 degrees resulting in the pilot landing heavily on his back.	Injury Pilot: Compressed l2 vertibrae- fracture; to hospital in central annecy
Date 28.05.2002 (B3435)	Pilot Male Age: 47	Location Paravion	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Parachute bridle shortened. When re-attached to the harness the carabiner would prize the stitching apart.	Injury Unknown
Date 27.05.2002 (B3434)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Swyre Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird 2- One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken ulna & radius
Date 24.05.2002 (B3433)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Field, Roxton Road, Chawston, Beds, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Report received from AAIB - low level paraglider collapse.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 12.05.2002 (B3430)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Helicopter flew low over site.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002 (B3427)	Pilot Female Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Bossington, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a soaring flight the pilot flew downwind at 500ft agl to land at the car park. At 250ft the canopy suffered a major collapse. The pilot chose to throw her emergency parachute which opened immediately. She landed uninjured.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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