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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 69 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 12.05.2008 (B4251)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bailey, 175 4s	Summary Pilot suffered engine failure and was forced to land in field adjacent to horses.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.03.2008 (B4239)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: FLPA	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution 26 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, ROS 100	Summary Pilot heard noise and turned to see that prusik loop holding wing tip steering line had slipped allowing line to contact prop causing damage to the line. Pilot landed safely and removed both lines.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 07.10.2007 (B4216)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Berwyn Mountains, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Thrust Hp Launch Type: Powered Engine: Sperwill, Easy 100	Summary Weight shift arm failed due to shearing of m8 capscrew (recently checked). Pilot was able to land with difficulty.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 06.09.2007 (B4204)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P	Location Tailbridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Skywalk Meskal 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: black devil	Summary Having released control handle to adjust seat, pilot noticed that prop had severed control handle causing some damage to prop.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 08.07.2007 (B4180)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: FLPA	Location Wormley Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, Top 80 1250	Summary Pilot had difficulty getting into seat due to slack leg straps. Pilot released one brake to assist but forgot to park brake first. Brake handle hit prop but bounced off and pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 08.07.2007 (B4178) Formal Report	Pilot Male	Location Bexhill, East Sussex, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Investigated by AAIB	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Date 11.06.2007 (B4174) Formal Report	Pilot Male	Location Chavenage Airstrip, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot performing aerobatic manoeuvres at low level got into difficulties and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Date 10.06.2007 (B4173)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: FLPA	Location Chavenage Green, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Action Gt Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bailey, 4s 175	Summary Pilot concentrating on landing close to marshals at comp did not notice parked hang glider. Cage struck hang glider wing causing some damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 02.05.2007 (B4150)	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: FLPA	Location West Cowick, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, Top 80 1250	Summary Pilot released brake to get into seat. Brake handle contacted prop causing minor damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 02.09.2005 (B3971)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Becketts Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Skywalk Silex Launch Type: Powered Engine: fresh breeze	Summary Unqualified pilot crashed having stalled wing just after take off.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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