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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 1757 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 25.04.2025 (F12824)	Pilot male Rating: P Flying Experience: 38 years 1000 flights (4 flights)	Location Howgills, Sedburgh, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 Queen 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot lost control of their paraglider on launch in gusty conditions and was dragged sideways. Once airborne the pilot realised their emergency parachute was partially released. The pilot managed to stow it and landed without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 22.04.2025 (F12823)	Pilot male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 32 years 701 flights (18 flights)	Location Windbank, Kettlewell, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flow Paragliders Fusion Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot experienced a departure from normal flight, likely a large asymmetric collapse, upon exiting a thermal. The pilot cited strong winds and possibly encountering rotor as contributing to the loss of control. The paraglider lost a significant amount of height in its recovery and the pilot landed without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 20.04.2025 (F12822)	Pilot male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 3000 flights (10 flights)	Location Back of Ecton, Ecton, 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 Photon Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was aware of the onset of a spin when using the controls to make tight turns in thermic conditions. Upon investigation the pilot noticed that the control line had twisted around itself, gathering some suspension lines, which were pulled when the pilot made a control input on that side. The pilot noted that they normally took wraps, twisting the control line above the spinner (fitted to prevent this type of line tangling).	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 17.04.2025 (F12821)	Pilot male Age: 59 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 14 flights (4 flights)	Location Osmington White Horse, Weymouth, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot landed heavily when attempting a top landing, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 10.04.2025 (F12817)	Pilot male Age: 59 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 55 flights (2 flights)	Location Wether Fell, Yorkshire Dales, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Calypso Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged their slope landing approach in changing conditions, colliding with a large grass tussock.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs
Date 08.04.2025 (F12819)	Pilot male Age: 67 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years (15 flights)	Location Glencoe ski area, Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot attempted to launch on a shallow slope with a tailwind, resulting in an unplanned fast contact with the slope shortly after becoming airborne.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 07.04.2025 (F12867)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 1200 flights (5 flights)	Location Mam Tor, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was dragged after making a top landing, and their emergency parachute deployed. Other pilots prevented the pilot from being dragged further. On subsequent inspection it was revealed that the parachute container closure pins were not held securely because the elastic closure loops had stretched.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 07.04.2025 (F12815)	Pilot male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 4 years	Location Pandy, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was landing on a sloping field, and collided with a fence. The paraglider wing wrapped around service cables overhead.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 31.03.2025 (F12814)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 455 flights	Location Rufforth, York, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Freeride 2 Launch Type: powered	Summary The pilot let go of the right control handle of their paraglider during climb-out under power, rather than stowing it on its keeper. The handle was drawn into the propeller, causing damage to the propeller, the control handle and control lines. The pilot was able to land without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 29.03.2025 (F12812)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 343 flights (30 flights)	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Stellar RS Launch Type: foot	Summary After taking a thermal climb over the back of the hill, the pilot prepared to land on a local golf course as they were not able to penetrate into wind to reach the ridge. They encountered turbulent air on approach to land and landed heavily, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 24 August 2026

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