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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:

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 24 published incident report summaries for Powered HGs

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Date

Pilot

Location

Wing Type

Summary

Injury
Incident Reports
Date
09.12.2001

(B3372)
Pilot
Male

Age:
33

Rating:
P
Location
Chesham,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Powered HG

Wing:
Airwave
Magic Iv

Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
Mosquito

Summary
PHG pilot spotted a 2 ft diameter parachute floating down 30ft away from him during a cross country flight. A long tube was attached to the parachute, which the pilot believes was from a model rocket.
Injury
Unknown
Date
11.10.2001

(B3349)
Pilot
Male

Age:
55

Rating:
CP
Location
Sieghford,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Powered HG

Wing:
Airwave
Classic 14

Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
Radne,
Racket 120

Summary
The hand throttle on a powered hg harness caught behind the rear rigging wire during flight causing a climbing turn.
Injury
Pilot:
Bruised shoulder.
Date
01.09.2001

(B3331)
Pilot
Male

Age:
59

Rating:
CP
Location
Oxboro Set-Aside,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Powered HG

Wing:
Airwave
Doodle-Bug/Magic Iii

Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
radne,
racket 120

Summary
No details available
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
05.05.2001

(B3267)
Pilot
Male

Age:
48

Rating:
P
Location
Near Doncaster,
UK

Wing Type
Powered HG

Launch Type:
Powered

Summary
Farmer found pilot in field with serious head injuries.
Injury
Pilot:
Serious head injuries, unconscious for several days. possible brain injury. right ulna fracture.

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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A number of incident analysis reports are also available in the safety section of main portal, bhpa.co.uk. These are compiled from the individual incident reports submitted during the course of each year.

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