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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 14.05.2004 (B3784)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Blorenge, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vulcan Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot discovered the The Loft had replaced lines incorrectly during a service causing the glider to be deformed in flight. Pilot was not able to discover fault during pre-flight check as all looked ok.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.05.2004 (B3781)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location Fochriw, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to control glider having made a successful top landing. Glider pulled student over causing 2 broken fingers.	Injury Pilot: 2 fr fingers
Date 02.05.2004 (B3779)	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: Novice	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student became boxed in by another pilot and crashed having taken avoiding action.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 02.05.2004 (B3780)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Bewaldeth, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bonanza Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse in rough thermic conditions which developed into a rotation. Pilot deployed reserve and landed safely though dragged on landing due to strong wind.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.04.2004 (B3776)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student went over on ankle while ground handling.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 24.04.2004 (B3777)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student failed to control glider after aborted take off. Glider reinflated and lifted student approx 2m into the air before dumping him back down heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 22.04.2004 (B3775)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: Novice	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student landed then got dragged into stone wall while attempting to walk glider back to launch.	Injury Pilot: Bruising and spr ankle
Date 18.04.2004 (B3774)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Mayo Bridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot spun glider then suffered 2 asymmetric collapses before hitting hill.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr pelvis
Date 17.04.2004 (B3773)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Argon Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Weak link broke at 80ft in gusty conditions and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.03.2004 (B3770)	Pilot Female Age: 34 Rating: Novice	Location Plain Joux, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Lift Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student overcompensated asymmetric at 30m and spun into building.	Injury Pilot: Fr heal and compressed vertebra

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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