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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 72 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
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
Date 21.03.2005 (B3895)	Pilot Male Age: 51	Location Frampton End Road, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Back injuries
Date 21.03.2005 (B3894)	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: FLPA	Location Lumb Farm, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 22.06.2004 (B3820)	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P	Location UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Unqualified (for flpa) pilot crashed flpa and was not discovered until early hours.	Injury Unknown
Date 20.06.2004 (B3819)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: FLPA	Location UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: FreeX Pure Launch Type: Powered Engine: Sperwill	Summary Pilot lost control of paramotor during launch/climb phase and crashed into the roof of a school.	Injury Pilot: Fr neck c6-c7
Date 13.06.2004 (B3814)	Pilot Unknown	Location By River Yarty, UK Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Action 29 Launch Type: Powered Engine: cyclone	Summary Pilot landed seated and cross wind. Pilot uninjured but prop smashed and fuel tank split. Possible damage to wing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.05.2004 (B3786)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: SPHG	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Mcdaddy Launch Type: Powered Engine: Fly, p130	Summary At 50m when pilot and passenger were getting into their seats, the risers became twisted resulting in the pilot losing control. They crashed heavily with the passenger sustaining severe injuries.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr collar bone
Date 16.03.2003 (B3594)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Selston, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Powered Engine: Rad, mxl	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 16 September 2026

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