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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 04.09.2004 (B3858)	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot encountered unexpected (though predictable) sink while ridge soaring. This resulted in a very fast slope landing attempt.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 03.09.2004 (B3857)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot failed to execute a good forward launch from a small technical take off area. Glider caught bushes and pilot crashed before taking off.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs
Date 02.09.2004 (B3856)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: Novice	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew into bush having misjudged landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Fr heal
Date 27.08.2004 (B3853)	Pilot Male Age: 53	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron	Summary Primary control pulley found to have failed (brake handle pulley). Pin dislodged and block missing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.08.2004 (B3854)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Montmin, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had midair while thermalling. Poor lookout by both pilots.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.08.2004 (B3847)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Brantside, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot inflated glider to feel the air and was lifted off his feet and thrown into a boulder, he was then dragged into a dry stone wall before being dragged through the wall which then fell on top of him!.	Injury Pilot: Dislo finger, bruising, back spasm
Date 14.08.2004 (B3848)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Ruddlers West, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Makalu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to properly collapse glider after successful flight and landing. He was then dragged 20m by a gust of wind. Continued training for rest of day.	Injury Pilot: Scratches and bruising
Date 14.08.2004 (B3849)	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Student bruised shoulder while attempting a PLF, though told only to watch and wait at this point.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shoulder
Date 10.08.2004 (B3846)	Pilot Female Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Mere Rifle Range, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Exact Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence and landed heavily wearing trainers and carrying ballast.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 07.08.2004 (B3844)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: AP	Location Kip Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Avax Rs Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid air while thermalling in competition. Some damage to other pilots wing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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