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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 04.10.2009 (B4389)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Scenic Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot deployed quick-outs while top landing in strong wind. Quick-out did not release and glider was lifted back into the air. Quick-outs then released and pilot and passenger landed firmly from 2-3m unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.10.2009 (B4388)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Clough Head, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On touching down in breezy conditions pilot was lifted back up by gust and swung into dry stone wall.	Injury Pilot: Fr humerus, fr ribs.
Date 26.09.2009 (B4386)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Eden 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot flew into sinking air while low over trees. Landed in tree tops.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.09.2009 (B4385)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Worcester Beacon, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on final approach. Glider then spun and pilot landed in tree unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.09.2009 (B4384)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot carried out normal slope landing but experienced pain. Suspects aggravation of leg injury sustained week previous.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 24.09.2009 (B4383)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary While pilot was coming in to land and at approx 5m above the ground another pilot attempted to launch directly in front. Pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.09.2009 (B4382)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled glider at 5m on final approach landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back
Date 09.09.2009 (B4379)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: P	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst walking to lower, less windy take off with glider bunched over shoulder, glider reinflated and dragged pilot back up and over launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia, fibula and patella.
Date 08.09.2009 (B4378)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: Under training	Location Bissane, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Everest Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stalled glider at 20m having overcorrected final turn into wind.	Injury Pilot: Slight bruising, possible pulled thigh muscle.
Date 01.09.2009 (B4377)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot accidentally deployed parachute at 30m while checking deployment handle in flight.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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