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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 1840 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 24.09.2026 (F19929)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years 1000 flights (200 flights)	Location Crete Road, Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot collided with low bushes after launch.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 23.09.2026 (F19931)	Pilot Unknown	Location Scottish Gliding Centre, Portmoak, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes Gecko Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary On approach to landing at approximately 5m above the ground, the pilot slowed the glider resulting in the left hand side wing stalling and dropping, the glider turning through 90 degrees. The pilot pushed out to reduce impact speed, releasing the uprights just before impact. The pilot swung through the A-frame, injuring their right arm and shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 18.09.2026 (F19927)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 20 years 445 flights (22 flights)	Location St Andre, St Andre, Coubons, FR Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider experienced a large asymmetric collapse in turbulent air, leading to a cascade involving multiple twists and cravats on both sides. The pilot successfully deployed their emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 13.09.2026 (F19915)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 20 years 1900 flights (60 flights)	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 5	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 13.09.2026 (F19908)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 26 years (50 flights)	Location Baisse d'Angles, St Andre les Alpes, FR Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Photon Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider experienced a sudden, severe collapse, resulting in cravats and a series of stalls and dives while attempting recovery. The situation became unrecoverable after the pilot fell through the lines, prompting successful deployment of their emergency parachute. The pilot landed without injury, although the paraglider was damaged.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 05.09.2026 (F19885)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 1000 flights (27 flights)	Location Long Mynd, Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RX Launch Type: foot	Summary On final approach to top land, the pilot became aware of two people packing a paraglider in the hang glider landing area. The pilot manoeuvred to avoid them and the right wingtip of the hang glider contacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 05.09.2026 (F19831)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 1800 flights (91 flights)	Location Devil's Dyke, Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot took action to avoid a potential mid air collision in busy air, and induced a spin. The pilot took action to recover from an asymmetric collapse which followed spin recovery, and then resumed normal flight.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 02.09.2026 (F19914)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 330 flights (15 flights)	Location Organya, Organya, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U Turn Blackout Launch Type: foot	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 15.08.2026 (F19771)	Pilot male Age: 68 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years	Location Hundred House N/NE, Hundred House, Bluith Wells Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing T2c Launch Type: foot	Summary A paraglider launched in close proximity to an airborne hang glider, requiring the hang glider pilot to take avoiding action.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 23.07.2026 (F19627)	Pilot male Age: 73 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 39 years (10 flights)	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported their accelerator system line wrapped around a camera mount on a carabiner, which then jammed. The line line tension caused the camera mount to separate and the flight continued without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 10 October 2026

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