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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 12.10.2005 (B3984)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location La Chens, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to land due to rain (glider wet). Put big ears in to land and on releasing ears glider entered deep stall.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.10.2005 (B3983)	Pilot Male Age: 26 Rating: P	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flying in strong wind caught out when wind strength increased forcing tree landing.	Injury Pilot: Cut face
Date 06.10.2005 (B3982)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student flared late and had legs out straight.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 05.10.2005 (B3981)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: Novice	Location Dalefoot, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student flew too close to hill prior to landing approach and landed heavily in a seated position with legs outstretched.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia
Date 17.09.2005 (B3976)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered symmetric collapse at low level in thermic conditions and crashed into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis, fr arm
Date 17.09.2005 (B3977)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider pilots suffered mid air collision and descended under one emergency chute.	Injury Pilot: Line burns to arm
Date 17.09.2005 (B3978)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unqualified, self-taught pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level in turbulent, thermic conditions.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.09.2005 (B3975)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Currium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to flare properly on landing and went over on ankle.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 11.09.2005 (B3974)	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot rotored in heavily while trying to creep back over ridge.	Injury Pilot: Fr t12 vertebra
Date 10.09.2005 (B3973)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Dingo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student jumped into seat before properly flying.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg

Last updated: 17 August 2026

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