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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 19.06.2014 (F10887)	Pilot male Age: 26 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 years 500 flights (40 flights)	Location Hay Bluff, Hereford, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 1 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off with twisted risers having walked down the slope due to strong winds at the take off area. Pilot lost control on launch and struck glancing blow on top of hill. Pilot was able to carry on flying and made successful bottom landing. Was driven to hospital where extent of injuries became apparent.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 12.06.2014 (F10868)	Pilot male Age: 29 Rating: CP	Location Parlick - West Bowl, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Acro wing Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of his wing attempting to carry out acrobatic manoeuvres close to the hill and at low altitude. Failed SAT resulted in a cascade and the pilot crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs

Date 11.06.2014 (F10882)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 20 flights	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Pro Design accura Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was seen to use excessive brake on approach to landing. This continued resulting in the pilot almost stalling and then spinning the glider and being swung into the ground with some force.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 08.06.2014 (F10875)	Pilot Unknown	Location Thame Park, Thame, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary On finishing towing for the day (Koch winch) the operator discovered that the hook at the bottom of one of the guillotine springs had snapped at the point it is formed from the body of the spring.	Injury Unknown

Date 31.05.2014 (F10862)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: CP Tow	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot had been ridge soaring for about 25 mins. Instructor had briefed for soaring with the possibility of top landing if all was well. Pilot was instructed to gain more height before attempting to top land but then had 50% asymmetric collapse. Glider turned sharply and dived and pilot hit hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 26.05.2014 (F10858)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Buckstones Edge, Huddersfield, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nivuik Hook Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was losing height and scratching for lift close in to the hill below the level of the road between the main site and Buckstones House. He was lifted suddenly, at which point his glider collapsed on the side nearest the road (this pilot's right side), seemingly in rotor. He was pulled across the road and impacted the slope on the far side.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 25.05.2014 (F10861)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: P	Location Compton Whites, IOW, IOW, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted a slope landing as the lift was less than expected. A gust led to a harder than anticipated landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 17.05.2014 (F10856)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Parlick, Preston, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: Little Cloud Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot landed but did not collapse glider properly. Glider reinflated and became airborne with pilot facing the hill. Pilot impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries

Date 17.05.2014 (F10857)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Dunstable, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent 2	Summary Pilot was ridge soaring at the northern end of the Dunstable ridge close to the ground in light wind with occasional thermal activity. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 12.05.2014 (F10957)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 45 years 1000 flights (8 flights)	Location Col d'Ares, Ager, ES	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Factor Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot encountered strong wind gradient on final approach and suspects he may have stalled glider (possibly due to having taken wraps), while trying to "S" turn off excess height.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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