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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 25.04.2011 (B4551)	Pilot Female Age: 33 Rating: Under training	Location Rabon, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to flare after low hop and did not run on landing so fell over.	Injury Pilot: Fractured heel.
Date 24.04.2011 (B4550)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Clough Head, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered major collapse and stall having failed to notice brake lines knotted to C lines during pre-flight checks.	Injury Pilot: Fr l2 vertebra. fr wrist. sprained ankle.
Date 17.04.2011 (B4548)	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: P	Location Malverns, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to carry out adequate pre flight check and turned wrong way on reverse launch. Pilot lost control and caught foot on another glider causing some damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.04.2011 (B4547)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Myreton, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Prion Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height while soaring and failed to account for shape of hill/slope. Landed heavily on rock.	Injury Pilot: Crushed t11 vertebra
Date 08.04.2011 (B4546)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Under training	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to get fully in to wind for landing and also failed to flare. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractured foot
Date 28.03.2011 (B4545)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Under training	Location Moel Feity, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student made normal flight but stumbled on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr finger
Date 22.03.2011 (B4543)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: Under training	Location Heol Senni, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student misjudged approach and struck foot on rocks.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr heel.
Date 21.03.2011 (B4542)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: Under training	Location Clench Common, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Team 5 Green Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went off-line while on tow and did not correct course when prompted. Winch operator cut power and student landed heavily from 5m.	Injury Pilot: Torn knee ligaments
Date 18.03.2011 (B4540)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Under training	Location Disgolfa, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Delite Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student completed short top to bottom flight but turned close to ground. Landed with speed and caught foot on tussock of grass.	Injury Pilot: Fractured fibula and tibia.
Date 18.03.2011 (B4539)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Montellena, Spain Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was blown back over ridge into rotor. Pilot deployed emergency parachute and landed safely with only minor bruising.	Injury Pilot: Bruising

Last updated: 5 July 2026

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