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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 1248 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 28.01.2008 (B4234)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed slightly crosswind on top-landing and had to run off speed. Caught foot in hole and fractured ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 27.01.2008 (B4233)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Novice	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima M Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student overtook glider on launch and dived forward. Wing then dived forward and student hit ground heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 27.01.2008 (B4232)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn G-force Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted a SAT but had a deflation on the opposite side that cravatted causing the wing to rotate in the opposite direction. Pilot did not have height to recover so deployed emergency chute.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 12.01.2008 (B4230)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location S W Ridge, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Tiger Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and spiralled into hill. Conditions were windy and turbulent.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, fr ribs, ruptured spleen.
Date 10.12.2007 (B4229)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP	Location La Palma, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave FR3 proto Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot collided with lamp post then fell to ground having experienced sink while attempting a spot landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra
Date 14.11.2007 (B4227)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Maiden Castle, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu medium Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot practising low level 360s, misjudged height and speed and crashed into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, fr leg, dislo foot
Date 05.11.2007 (B4225)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Western Bowl, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level in windy and gusty conditions. Possibility of rotor due wind being slightly off hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr legs
Date 01.11.2007 (B4224)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Baza, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level having taken off in thermic breeze that was 90 degrees off the prevailing wind. Probable cause, rotor.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow
Date 27.10.2007 (B4223)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Bir, India Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered cravat and had 2 failed attempts to deploy emergency chute then managed to recover glider and land.	Injury Pilot: Mild shock
Date 21.10.2007 (B4222)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student failed to release A risers on launch causing front collapse. Student fell forward onto shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Strained shoulder

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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