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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 05.05.2006 (B4022)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P	Location Shining Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched into strong thermal and suffered an asymmetric collapse before being dumped back onto hill. Pilot blames overconfidence and underestimating gust strength.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 30.04.2006 (B4021)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham Valley, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet Syrius Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student mistimed flare on ground skimming flight and landed heavilly.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 29.04.2006 (B4020)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Odonnells Rock, Ireland Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered 50%+ asymmetric collapse at 50-60ft while on approach to top land. Glider entered rapid spiral and crashed before pilot could recover.	Injury Pilot: Fr l4 vertebra
Date 29.04.2006 (B4019)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Maiden Castle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot hit sink while ridge soaring and slope landed. Landing was fast and heavy.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 29.04.2006 (B4018)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Comb Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered extreme turbulence while ridge soaring and lost control of glider. Chose to immediately throw emergency chute (at approx 200ft) and landed safely. Pilot states that numerous deployment practices at BFR saved his life.	Injury Pilot: Bruising
Date 24.04.2006 (B4016)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P	Location Rushup Edge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Eden 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and spiraled into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow
Date 22.04.2006 (B4015)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Pegas Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot allowed himself to get low on the ridge with a tailwind and in sinking air. Did not leave enough time or room to turn out and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 16.04.2006 (B4014)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Llety Siac, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Flair Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed in wind conditions and attempted to deflate glider using A risers. Glider deflated but immediately reinflated dragging pilot into large rock. Serious injury (or worse) prevented by helmet.	Injury Pilot: Concussion, bruising.
Date 15.04.2006 (B4013)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Glyder Fach, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot dumped down (probably by unforeseen rotor) from low level while flying over rocky terrain.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 12.04.2006 (B4012)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Novice	Location Currium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric collapse on an assisted forward launch. Student did not correct the ensuing turn and crashed into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot/ankle

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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