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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 11.05.2014 (F10869)	Pilot male Age: 59 15 flights	Location Ronda la Vieja, Ronda, ES Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: foot	Summary Student approached for a top landing. Student came in slightly cross wind and did not get fully out of harness. Student caught outstretched leg on landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 04.05.2014 (F10889)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: P (2 flights)	Location Southbourne, Southbourne, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot crashed into cliff having lost height in a turn. Pilot can not explain why incident occurred as glider was flying normally.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 04.04.2014 (F10842)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 years 85 flights (6 flights)	Location ringstead, dorchester Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders sprint evo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot decided to land as he was unhappy with the breezy conditions. Pilot sustained asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted the hillside with force.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, thoracic spine

Date 01.04.2014 (F10840)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Stanage, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Avax Avax XC3 Launch Type: foot	Summary On approach to landing in a small clear area surrounded by rocks and uneven ground, the pilot attempted to progressively flair but stalled the wing, causing the pilot to fall vertically about 1.5 metres onto uneven ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 30.03.2014 (F10847)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 495 flights (7 flights)	Location Labrador Bay, Teignmouth, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Zefira Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged local winds and flew into an area of severe turbulence. Rapid height loss necessitated an emergency landing on a rocky beach.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 30.03.2014 (F10839)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Labrador Bay, South Devon, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot missed sandy landing area and landed on rocky ledge but then fell forward off ledge onto rocks 1m below. Pilot's leg became trapped in rocks damaging ankle.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 16.03.2014 (F10835)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: None. Training - post EPC Flying Experience: 13 years 30 flights (1 flight)	Location Perran Sands, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Elan Launch Type: foot	Summary Student could not get glider turned into wind on final approach and crashed downwind into a caravan.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 16.03.2014 (F10843)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 23 flights (6 flights)	Location Butser Hill West, Petersfield, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot decided to slope land due to weak conditions. Pilot made turn towards the hill rather than away and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 16.03.2014 (F10834)	Pilot female Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, Dorset, 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: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot spun glider on approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine

Date 04.03.2014 (F10844)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 28 years 100 flights (50 flights)	Location Valle de Bravo, Mexico City, MX Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: very strong (>5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Cheetah Evo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot crashed into hedge having ran out of landing options attempting to maximise distance in a competition. Pilot had assumed he would reach lift coming from a ridge but the lift was too violent to utilise.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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