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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 11.08.2018 (F11639)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 400 flights (100 flights)	Location Parlick, Chipping, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Takoo 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot and passenger landed safely near to the top of the hill due to light winds. Not long after landing strong gust came through, wing tried to inflate but dragged both pilot and passenger along the top into a stone wall. Pilot tried but was unable to control wing.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder Passenger: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture) hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine

Date 07.05.2018 (F11562)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Northborough, Cambridgeshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania GTX Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 12.12.2017 (F11480)	Pilot male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Stanage Edge, Sheffield, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Elan Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was soaring Stanage Edge, with other paraglider pilots. His wing was seen to have an asymmetric collapse on the left hand side, whilst flying with the ridge on his left. The wing turned sharply towards the hill and the pilot impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 03.12.2017 (F11483)	Pilot male Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Pilling, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco NRG Pro Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while flying at low altitude and crashed into ploughed field.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 19.02.2017 (F11291)	Pilot male Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Bagworth Park Farm, Coalville, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Snake Launch Type: powered	Summary The pilot was seen to induce a spiral dive at about 1000ft above ground level, and maintained the spiral. At approx 300ft above ground level the pilot was seen to impact a second pilot and they rotated through 360 degrees before separating. The second landed safely and was uninjured (his wing was damaged). The first pilot continued his spiral to the ground and suffered fatal injuries..	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 22.01.2017 (F11278)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years	Location Sarangkot, Pokhara, NP Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot landed in a tree then fell while attempting to climb down.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 29.10.2016 (F11268)	Pilot female Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Ager, Catalonia, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot lost control of the paraglider in close proximity to the hillside and impacted the ground sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 23.10.2016 (F11318)	Pilot male Age: 37	Location Pilling, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Jojo Wings Instinct Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paramotor at low altitude.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 14.10.2016 (F11267)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location 360, Bir, IN Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Tala Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level while thermalling. Pilot was unable to regain control of the glider and deployed his emergency parachute. Parachute had insufficient height to deploy fully and pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries

Date 22.06.2016 (F11194)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP	Location Chabre,, Laragne Monteglin, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Evo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary While on day 4 of the UK National Hang Gliding Champs there was a mid-air collision involving two hang glider pilots. One of the pilots involved sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, cervical spine

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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