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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 18.06.2016 (F11192)	Pilot male Age: 42 Flying Experience: 14 years	Location Devils Dyke, near Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level and impacted heavily sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, feet, legs

Date 22.03.2016 (F11196)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years	Location Selsey, Chichester, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron xx Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse at low level.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 18.09.2015 (F11126)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Fleetwith Pike, Lake District, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paraglider while in close proximity to fellside, while on cross country flight.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, internal injuries, thorax

Date 31.07.2015 (F11069)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Edge Top, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 07.07.2015 (F11120)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: Pilot (Power)	Location Siurana Alt Emporda 17469, Siurana/Girona, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Slalom Launch Type: foot	Summary A paramotor pilot was critically injured upon impact with the ground, and died from his injuries. There were no witnesses to the flight or the impact.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 30.07.2014 (F10900)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P (1 flight)	Location Rhossili, Swansea, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Nevada Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot stumbled during reverse launch having been pulled towards the glider.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 29.07.2014 (F10897)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years (34 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Hungerford, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Atis 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in increasingly gusty and thermic conditions with the prevailing wind at times in excess of 45 degrees off the hill. Shortly after take off the pilot experienced severe thermic turbulence at approx 20-30m. The glider suffered an asymmetric collapse and then further collapses causing the pilot to pendulum into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 29.07.2014 (F10898)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Bell Hill, Blandford, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Raven Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and then stalled glider. Pilot impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs

Date 27.07.2014 (F10907)	Pilot male Age: 48	Location Devil's Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Rio 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was too high for landing approach having failed to execute simple turns during flight. Student landed crosswind in hedge and failed to let go of the uprights.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 26.07.2014 (F10901)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 17 years 250 flights (20 flights)	Location Bradwell Edge, Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint EVO Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot did not take time to establish thermic conditions and was caught out by heavy sink while thermalling. Pilot managed to top land but was then dragged into a stone wall.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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