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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 1229 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 01.02.2012 (F10593)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 17 flights	Location Taunton Repack, Taunton, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4	Summary During a deployment and repack session the pilot found his parachute would not deploy. It was found to be incorrectly packed. It was then repacked correctly.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 09.01.2012 (F10573)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years 730 flights	Location Bishop Hill, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot built a wall with his paraglider in preparation to launch. As he launched the glider a gust of wind lifted him off his feet and he fell heavily on his shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 09.01.2012 (B4613)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P	Location Bishop Hill, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot inflated glider in gusty conditions and was lifted up and dumped down on shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr collarbone
Date 08.01.2012 (F10574)	Pilot male Age: 41 11 flights	Location Ditchling Beacon, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: foot	Summary Student did not flare on landing and stayed in seated position. Caught foot under harness seat.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 08.01.2012 (B4612)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Under training	Location Ditchling Beacon, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 110-130 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to flare on landing and slid in seated catching foot in soft earth.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula and tibia
Date 20.11.2011 (B4611)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: Under training	Location High and Over, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student sat back in harness too soon and was not in position to run as glider came back down. Landed awkwardly on ankle.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle
Date 01.11.2011 (B4610)	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: CP	Location Bulbarrow, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Addict 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged height loss and wind direction during a 360. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel
Date 23.10.2011 (B4608)	Pilot Female Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Conil de la Frontera, Spain Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled glider from 10m as a result of slowing glider too much prior to landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr t10, t11 and l3 vertebrae.
Date 15.10.2011 (B4607)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P	Location Mere, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had airprox with sailplane. Report filed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.10.2011 (B4606)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Godrevy, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot spun glider exiting 360 degree turn due to flying with insufficient airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Fr c6, c7 and t6 vertebrae

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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