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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 1262 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 08.02.2001 (B3242)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Winter Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary A paraglider and hang glider were soaring Winter Hill when a small aircraft appeared and began to perform aerobatics close to the site. The paraglider suffered a collapse which the pilot was able to correct. .	Injury Unknown
Date 28.01.2001 (B3238)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: CP	Location Sutons Corner, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fractured fibula.
Date 28.01.2001 (B3239)	Pilot Male Age: 18	Location Marania Farm, Kenya Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student let one of the controls up on landing causing the glider to turn / dive, this resulted in a landing on one foot which then twisted.	Injury Pilot: Sprained left ankle.
Date 28.01.2001 (B3240)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location Marania Farm, Kenya Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Jive Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During early training flights student suffered from ground rush - as he approached the ground the student brought his left hand down causing the glider to turn left, student impacted ground.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to right hand.
Date 14.01.2001 (B3234)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot soaring with ridge on his left turned left toward the hill in front of an oncoming Pg. The canopies came very close to touching causing the second canopy to suffer a partial collapse.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.01.2001 (B3232)	Pilot Unknown	Location Threlkeld, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details!	Injury Pilot: Not specified, but not life threatening.
Date 13.01.2001 (B3233)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Blease Fell, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Canopy suffered a front tuck in turbulent air.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, fr pelvis, pneumothorax, fr ribs
Date 10.01.2001 (B3230)	Pilot Male Age: 39	Location Buachaille Etive Mor, UK Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reports from the Scottish press of two PGs suffering collapses whilst flying in the Glencoe area.	Injury Pilot: Cuts and bruises
Date 10.01.2001 (B3231)	Pilot Male	Location Buachaille Etive Mor, UK Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reports from the Scottish press of two PGs suffering collapses whilst flying in the Glencoe area.	Injury Pilot: Fractured leg
Date 15.12.2000 (B3226)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Axon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider pilot heard shouting during a soaring flight he turned to look behind at the moment that a hang gliders wing tip clipped the back of his harness. Both pilots landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 24 August 2026

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