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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 18.02.2014 (F10652)	Pilot male Age: 42 23 flights	Location Trainor, Laragne, FR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was late getting out of harness for landing and did not flare so landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 04.12.2013 (F10818)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: Unqualified	Location Pendle, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: Ozone Firefly Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level in windy and turbulent conditions. Pilot crashed and was fatally injured.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 20.11.2013 (F10823)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Bir/Billing, Dharamsala, IN	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: foot	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 13.11.2013 (F10811)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 42 years 500 flights	Location Haresfield, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had asymmetric collapse and then spun into the ground before being bounced and dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine, thorax

Date 11.11.2013 (F10816)	Pilot male Age: 67 28 flights	Location Agruegour, MA Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was on soaring flight under instruction with the intention of maintaining height. At the end of one beat the student continued the turn as if to 360. Instructed to turn away but did not. Student flew into the side of the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 10.11.2013 (F10812)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 35 years	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was flying with large amount of brake while coming in to land at approx 2m off the ground. At this moment a tandem glider passed in front and the paraglider stalled dropping the pilot on his back.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 02.11.2013 (F10807)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 1 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in windy conditions and became pinned above the launch area. he then flew back into the leeside rotor and crash heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 18.10.2013 (F10804)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years	Location Paradise Ridge, ZA Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider, possible spin, but exact nature of control loss is unknown. Pilot crashed into cliffs.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, lumbar spine, thorax

Date 05.10.2013 (F10802)	Pilot male Age: 41	Location Whetton, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nervures Estive Launch Type: foot	Summary Student forward launched glider but allowed the glider to overfly him. Student was pulled over.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 29.09.2013 (F10815)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 33 years	Location Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: Aeros Phantom Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was disturbed during rigging a number of times to help others. Forgot to attach inboard control wire. Pilot took off and realised he had no ability to turn left. Pilot attempted to land but lost all control and crashed doing approx 60mph.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine, thorax

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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