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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 02.08.2001 (B3313)	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Mittag, Germany Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary The canopy inflated unevenly during launch. The student managed to correct this but the student was now 20 degrees off his intended heading. The canopy lines scraped some ski cables located to the left of launch. Student recovered normal flight .	Injury Unknown
Date 30.07.2001 (B3310)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Thurnham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr both legs, two vertebrae.
Date 28.07.2001 (B3306)	Pilot Male Age: 47	Location Penmaer Beach, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Eden Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged distance from the hill and clipped a lump on it. Spevtator called emergency services, helicopter arrived although was not needed.	Injury Pilot: Sprained wrist
Date 28.07.2001 (B3309)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Monks Field, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Black Magic M Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Lower back
Date 27.07.2001 (B3304)	Pilot Male Age: 31	Location Whetton, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to follow radio instructions and flew into an area of turbulence, canopy collapse (50%) piutched down and left into rocks.	Injury Pilot: Poss : fr vertebra, l femur, r ankle, head injury not specified, , bleeding from femur area.
Date 27.07.2001 (B3305)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot realised too late that he was flying downwind with insufficeint height - impacted steep part of the hill.	Injury Pilot: Bennetts fracture to right thumb. deep gash in right shin.
Date 26.07.2001 (B3303)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Spectra Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student turned left into the hill rather than right as instructed.	Injury Pilot: Suspected fractured foot.
Date 23.07.2001 (B3302)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP	Location Brighstone, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Atto Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot injured foot during gentle lanbding.	Injury Pilot: Torn quadriceps tendon above knee joint.
Date 22.07.2001 (B3299)	Pilot Male	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student landed feet first on the side of the hill after instructions over the radio were ignored.	Injury Pilot: Bruised lower back.
Date 22.07.2001 (B3300)	Pilot Female Age: 25	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student attempting top landing landed seated, canopy fell sideways.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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