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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 1715 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 19.01.2025 (F12786)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 39 years (175 flights)	Location Los Tanques, Roldanillo, CO Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Enzo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary During an end of competition task flight, the pilot chose to fly past a suitable landing area and pushed on towards gliders climbing ahead, despite the lack of suitable further landing options. They chose to land in a tree as the only option.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 16.01.2025 (F12794)	Pilot male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 748 flights (25 flights)	Location Rhossili, South Wales, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: SupAir Pilot Helmet Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot attempted to adjust clothing around their neck whilst in flight and inadvertently activated the release mechanism of their SupAir Pilot helmet, which fell off.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 11.01.2025 (F12783)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: Unknown	Location Pendle East Face, Clitheroe, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, unknown	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: Unknown Unknown speed flying paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary The speed flying pilot impacted the ground heavily during a swoop manoeuvre.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 04.01.2025 (F12779)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 500 flights (120 flights)	Location Nont Sarahs, Huddersfield HD7 6NR, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alpina 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary A model aircraft and a paraglider collided whilst airborne, the model becoming entangled in the paraglider's rear lines. The paraglider landed without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 03.01.2025 (F12777)	Pilot male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 37 years 1493 flights (37 flights)	Location Dunstable, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Solar wings Rumour 1 Launch Type: foot	Summary The hang glider pilot was soaring in conditions busy with other traffic (paragliders, sailplanes). They found themselves in proximity to a sailplane. No collision occurred.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 02.01.2025 (F12780)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years	Location Waystones Edge, Calderdale, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Xi	Summary After performing multiple touch and go flights and ground handling, the pilot reported that the inflation tube of their recently fitted airbag impact pad was missing from their Woody Valley GTO Light harness. The pilot expressed concern that the tube came away and that the impact pad was able to fully delate without the pilot noticing.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.08.2022 (F12369)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: Unqualified	Location New Church Farm, Tong, Bradford, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: BGD Luna 2	Summary The incident occurred when the pilot's paraglider was induced into a turn by the ingestion of the left-hand control line into the turning propeller. The turn developed into a spiral dive, from which the pilot was unable to recover before impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 20.04.2019 (F11739)	Pilot male Age: 35 Flying Experience: 7 years	Location Broughton Heights near Broughton Village Scottish Borders, Broughton, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright	Summary Fatal incident under investigation	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries, thorax

Date 07.10.2018 (F11679)	Pilot male Age: 55	Location Bishop Norton, Market Rasen, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot hit a tree, following landing attempt.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 31.08.2018 (F11647)	Pilot male Age: 25 Rating: unknown Flying Experience: 9 years	Location East Knoyle, East Knoyle, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania GTX Launch Type: powered	Summary Glider seen going from stable flight into wing-over maneuver which progressed into deep spiral dive, which pilot was unable to recover. Rapid loss of height resulting in impact to ground and adjacent power lines.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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