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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 04.11.2006 (B4097)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: AP	Location Frocester, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Tycoon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caught harness in tree tops while scratching in light conditions. Glider overflew then collapsed and pulled pilot into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, fr pelvis, internal injuries
Date 19.10.2006 (B4096)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: AP	Location Roque Brune, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Mustang Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Having completed a series of acro manoeuvres, pilot did not leave enough height to make landing area resulting in water landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.10.2006 (B4095)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Novice	Location Col De Bleyne, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet Syrius Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched but wing came up unevenly causing pilot to go off to one side landing heavily .	Injury Pilot: Bruised thigh
Date 13.10.2006 (B4093)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot stumbled back having landed and put excessive weight on outstretched hand/wrist.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 06.10.2006 (B4092)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Kyrenia, Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Plus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot missed tangled line during pre-flight check. Took off and glider turned to left. Pilot stalled glider while trying to maintain safe course.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra
Date 04.10.2006 (B4091)	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: Novice	Location Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During top landing approach, student drifted off-line toward higher ground. Student struck edge of sand dune.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 28.09.2006 (B4089)	Pilot Male Age: 20 Rating: Novice	Location Bedlinog, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student turned wrong way on reverse launch and lost control in trying to recover. Student was dragged over some rocks before regaining control.	Injury Pilot: Grazed calf
Date 22.09.2006 (B4088)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P	Location Lake Ohrid, Macedonia Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot almost drowned after landing in water while on acro course. No life jackets were used and pilot found himself floating face down. Rescue consisted of a rowing boat so took some time to reach pilot.	Injury Pilot: Near drowning, fr rib, damaged lung
Date 17.09.2006 (B4087)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Warren Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Glider overshot student during reverse inflation then collapsed. Glider reinflated pulling student over and injuring foot.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 07.09.2006 (B4083)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location White Rocks, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed in sea and was seen to attempt to recover glider rather than swim clear. Pilot subsequently drowned.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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