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Incident Reports (FIDA)

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:

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).

If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 24 published incident report summaries for Powered HGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 02.03.2012 (F10587)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 14 flights (7 flights)	Location Darley Moor, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Offpiste Discovery Launch Type: powered	Summary While on a powered hang glider flight the battery for the power unit caught fire. The pilot made an emergency landing.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 24.07.2011 (B4576)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Bethel, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Doodlebug	Summary Rear wire broke during aborted take-off.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 05.09.2010 (B4498)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: CP	Location Avranches, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Powered Engine: Flylight, Doodlebug	Summary Pilot took off in light winds climbing to 80ft. In attempting to open airframe throttle pilot opened choke in error. In attempting to correct pilot inadvertently allowed glider to stall. Glider crashed in power on spiral.	Injury Pilot: Fractured femurs, ribs and facial injuries. collapsed lung.

Date 22.08.2004 (B3852)	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: CP	Location Hill Farm Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Powered Engine: radne, racket 120	Summary Pilot tore leg muscle on attempting to launch. Later taken to hospital after passing out. Found that leg straps had been too tight and restricted circulation and ability to expand and contract.	Injury Pilot: Torn leg muscle

Date 31.07.2004 (B3833)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location A53, UK	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Solar Wings Rumour Launch Type: Powered Engine: mosquito	Summary Pilot encountered turbulence on approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Bruising

Date 30.04.2004 (B3778)	Pilot Male Age: 35	Location UK	Wing Type Powered HG Launch Type: Powered Engine: mosquito	Summary Pilot discovered torn zip line attachment which could have resulted in the line reaching the prop with serious consequences.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.03.2004 (B3761)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave K5 Launch Type: Powered Engine: mosquito	Summary Pilot took off with high angle of attack and stalled one wing at 15ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr arm

Date 03.08.2003 (B3706)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Powered Engine: Racket	Summary Emergency parachute deployed accidentaly causing pilot and wing to crash land under chute. Possible bad combination of chute and harness in terms of fit. .	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 16.06.2003 (B3672)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Pincots Lane, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Avian Java Launch Type: Powered Engine: Doodle Bug	Summary Pilot turned off engine too soon and was unable to make landing field hitting power lines.	Injury Pilot: 15% electrical burns, hip, abdomen and legs.

Date 08.06.2003 (B3659)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Magilligan, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: mosquito	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Minor rib injury (no medical aid required)

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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