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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 26.07.2014 (F10914)	Pilot female Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 110 flights (11 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Newbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot mistimed landing flare and stalled glider. Pilot landed heavily and hand hit the ground hard.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 25.07.2014 (F10906)	Pilot female Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 2000 flights (35 flights)	Location Charbre, Laragne, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders carrera Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had asymmetric collapse while thermalling. The glider cravated resulting in a spiral dive with twisted risers. Pilot deployed parachute but it did not open. Pilot crashed heavily into mountainside.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 20.07.2014 (F10893)	Pilot female Age: 43 Flying Experience: 29 years (18 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Blandford Forum, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot mistimed slope landing flare due to perceived fast approach (possibly due to change in wind direction) and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 20.07.2014 (F10895)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: pilot pg Flying Experience: 38 years 500 flights (10 flights)	Location Model Ridge, Carlton in Cleveland, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone geo3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach to slope landing and had to abort due to small bushes in approach path. Pilot then dropped suddenly from 2-3m and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 14.07.2014 (F10891)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 51 years (20 flights)	Location Mendlesham tow field, Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Aeros Discus 15 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary 6-8mph 45% cross wind landing, gust/thermal on touchdown, got turned downwind and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 09.07.2014 (F10885)	Pilot male Age: 34 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 200 flights (30 flights)	Location Sopot, Sopot, BG Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Phoenix Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot stalled glider at 5-10m while attempting to land with excessive brake applied. Landed heavily on feet and back.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 02.07.2014 (F10890)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P 1000 flights (31 flights)	Location Chabre, Laragne, FR Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot got low during comp and decided to make safe landing option. The chosen field turned out to be steeper than anticipated and in the lee of some trees. While attempting a slope landing the pilot dropped from approx. 1m and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 24.06.2014 (F10904)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 26 years 500 flights (50 flights)	Location Col de Forclaz, Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: AIR VR10T 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), pelvis, feet, legs

Date 24.06.2014 (F10876)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 27 years 1451 flights (35 flights)	Location south of Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: apco fiesta 2 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Glider stalled from approx 1.5m while pilot was being tow launched. Pilot notice glider was offline and applied some brake to bring the glider into line with the towline. It stalled though the pilot suspects it may already have begun to stall before he made the brake input.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 23.06.2014 (F10908)	Pilot male Age: 57	Location Muggery, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot did not get legs down while attempting a slope landing. Leg became caught under harness on landing.	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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