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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 1345 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 28.05.2012 (F10618)	Pilot male Age: 77 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years 205 flights	Location Eype, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Hornet Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was flying too close to cliff edge and glider snagged causing pilot to crash onto side of cliff.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis
Date 27.05.2012 (F10617)	Pilot female Age: 37 30 flights	Location Loose Bottom, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: foot	Summary Student on CP course failed to turn away from the ridge and impacted cross slope.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 25.05.2012 (F10616)	Pilot male Age: 37 Flying Experience: 15 years 38 flights	Location The String, Aaran, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student used excessive brake on reverse launch and was lifted off his feet. Student swung round and was dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 22.05.2012 (F10615)	Pilot Rating: P 100 flights	Location Rhos Dirion, Talgarth Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bi Golden 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged wind on approach to top landing and landed heavily crosswind.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs Passenger: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture) feet, legs
Date 21.05.2012 (F10614)	Pilot male Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years	Location Merthyr, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Bi-Beta Launch Type: foot	Summary In a rush to get launched in decreasing winds the pilot failed to clip himself onto the tandem glider. Pilot held on to spreaders until landing. Never more than 2 - 3m off the ground.	Injury Pilot: unhurt Passenger: unhurt
Date 12.05.2012 (F10611)	Pilot male Age: 34	Location Firle, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student landed cross wind with leg outstretched.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 08.05.2012 (F10609)	Pilot male Age: 21	Location Hack, Bavaria, DE Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Cruiser Launch Type: foot	Summary Glider launched asymmetrically pulling student to one side. Student tripped and fell attempting to get under canopy.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs
Date 03.05.2012 (F10606)	Pilot male Age: 68 Flying Experience: 40 years	Location Soldeu, AD Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paratech P11 Light Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was not concentrating and misjudged landing approach hitting wall with leg.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 15.04.2012 (F10604)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Tinto, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had midair collision with another paraglider and suffered an asymmetric collapse. Pilot had difficulty deploying emergency parachute and later found it had become entangled with the line holding his vario.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 15.04.2012 (F10598)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Codden, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control in thermic and gusty conditions.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine, thorax

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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