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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 17.05.2005 (B3912)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: Novice	Location Truleigh Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric collapse at 10m and hit hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel
Date 15.05.2005 (B3908)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Curium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student allowed glider to overfly on launch pulling pilot over.	Injury Pilot: Minor abrasions to face, arm and calf
Date 09.05.2005 (B3907)	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot initiated symmetric collapse by pulling b rather than a lines for big ears. Glider then entered spin with cravatte.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.04.2005 (B3905)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: P	Location St Cyrus, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Quarx Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled glider by flying too slowly and in wrong area.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back
Date 23.04.2005 (B3906)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Refugio Di Perugia, Italy Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered multiple asymmetric collapses prior to deploying emergency chute. Probably due to flying through unforseen rotor.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.04.2005 (B3904)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location High And Over, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Serac Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot top landed and reached for A risers to deflate canopy. At this point he was lifted 3ft into the air then dragged back into a ditch.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 16.04.2005 (B3903)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Fransham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot suffered line break at 1000ft but did not realise line was still connected. Flew with training line until line snagged on trees. pilot threw emergency parachute and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.04.2005 (B3901)	Pilot Female Age: 26 Rating: Novice	Location Curium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student was lifted off ground during reverse launch attempt, then pulled wrong control resulting in a turn into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia
Date 26.03.2005 (B3898)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Blackhall, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was flying a recognised site in a normal manner and was made aware that his activity had scared some horses that had then broke their tethers and damaged 2 parked cars.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2005 (B3897)	Pilot Male Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid-air with another paraglider. Both carried on flying without problem.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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