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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 06.08.2004 (B3843)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: Novice	Location Compton Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped on take off and fell heavily on arm.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm
Date 04.08.2004 (B3840)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: P	Location Mynydd Meio, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse from turbulence from another glider. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor bruising and scrapes
Date 03.08.2004 (B3839)	Pilot Male Age: 77 Rating: P	Location Ringstead, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Grid Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew into hill having failed to notice that the wind had shifted to a direction too far off the hill to provide much lift.	Injury Pilot: Fr spine
Date 02.08.2004 (B3838)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Low airtime pilot caught out by windy conditions pulled big ears having already applied full speed bar! Resulted in full frontal collapse and subsequant cascade sequence until impact.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ribs
Date 01.08.2004 (B3837)	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location High & Over, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed heavily having lost height on approach to landing.	Injury Pilot: Twisted knee
Date 31.07.2004 (B3834)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Novice	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Space Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped having completed flight successfully.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 31.07.2004 (B3836)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Novice	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Samba Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student collided with another paraglider (both flew on without incident) whilst ridge soaring. Poor airmanship!.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.07.2004 (B3832)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Telegraph Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse as a result of rotor caused by windy conditions.	Injury Pilot: Ligament and tissue damage to neck and back
Date 13.07.2004 (B3829)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Worcester Beacon, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered stall then failed to make immediate recovery. Eventually recovered.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2004 (B3828)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric while flying in strong turbulent conditions. The ensuing dive led to a spiral that the pilot could not recover. He deployed his emergency chute and landed safely but was then dragged for 300m. .	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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