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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 05.04.2006 (B4011)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: Novice	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student was pulled over having completed successful slope landing.	Injury Pilot: Grazed arm
Date 05.04.2006 (B4010)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: Novice	Location Currium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student overshot landing area and landed on rough ground twisting leg.	Injury Pilot: Torn muscle
Date 05.04.2006 (B4009)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Comb Gibbet Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Excalibur Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot infringed airspace whilst attempting flight that was impossible due to airspace changes made some years ago.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.03.2006 (B4007)	Pilot Female Age: 52 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Glider came up unevenly due to uneven pressure on risers by student. Tow launch aborted but student twisted knee when turning to collapse glider.	Injury Pilot: Sprained knee
Date 27.02.2006 (B4006)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Dickie Danda, Nepal Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On final approach pilot hit lift and decided to 360. He then hit sink and attempted to make initial approach and landing. Pilot landed heavily while in pendulum having turned tightly to make initial landing area.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 26.02.2006 (B4005)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Skyline Drive, Jamaica Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered strong sidewind when on final approach, probably caused by strong thermic activity at landing area. Pilot landed heavily. PLF saved more severe damage.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 29.01.2006 (B4002)	Pilot Female Age: 29 Rating: Novice	Location Addleborough, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped on takeoff run, the gilder having gone off to one side.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 22.01.2006 (B4001)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Gyrn, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Plus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot twisted ankle on landing having failed to get out of seat (and having flared a little too high). Probably caused by change to routine, having made harness adjustments prior to the flight.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 22.01.2006 (B4000)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Nont Sarahs, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot displayed poor airmanship in allowing a midair assuming he had right of way.	Injury Pilot: Fr finger. internal bruising
Date 21.01.2006 (B3998)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Leadlich, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stumbled on uneven ground while ground-handling in preparation for launch.	Injury Pilot: Grazed leg

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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