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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 1327 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.03.2002 (B3392)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student fell during forward launch dislocating his knee cap.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated knee cap
Date 17.03.2002 (B3390)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Atherfield, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Alto Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Following launch the pilot to a steeper cliff area in search of stronger lift. The air in this area was quite turbulent. As the pilot turned the glider it caught by a gust and the pilot impacted the cliff with his ankle. He flew to the beach to land.	Injury Pilot: Fr/dl ankle
Date 13.03.2002 (B3387)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Novice	Location Morroco, Morocco	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Displaced vertebra. possible spinal injury
Date 26.02.2002 (B3386)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Jama Tenerife, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Fiesta S Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Newly qualified pilot confused instructions to another pilot for his own - he turned left following launch into the hillside as he felt he might collide with a lorry driving up the road in front of launch.	Injury Pilot: Two fractured vertebrae
Date 24.02.2002 (B3385)	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Alicante, Spain	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 17.02.2002 (B3384)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: AP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Tandem pilot seen to launch into very strong conditions. When landing he was dragged backwards through a barbed wire fence.	Injury Pilot: Cuts to face.
Date 12.02.2002 (B3383)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Sierra De Lujar, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a 6000ft top to bottom flight the pilot failed to turn into wind whilst high enough - he therefore decided to land downwind at which point he noticed a 3ft high wall. With no time for alternative options he flew into the wall.	Injury Pilot: Compound fracture to femur (l). blood loss.
Date 13.01.2002 (B3380)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Monte Carlo, Monaco Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Pro Design Effect 38 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Whilst soaring in thermal lift two paragliders collided causing a tear to one of them. The pilot managed to land safely.	Injury Pilot: Shock.
Date 06.01.2002 (B3379)	Pilot Female Age: 45 Rating: CP	Location Mount Pleasant, Barbados Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Axon Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebra lower back.
Date 01.01.2002 (B3378)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Chillerton, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Dragon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst performing a 360 degree turn the pilot encountered sinking air resulting in a loss of altitude. The pilot clipped the hillside whilst exiting the turn.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertabrae * 2, broken finger nail.

Last updated: 16 September 2026

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