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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 1859 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 14.05.2016 (F11180)	Pilot Rating: P 1000 flights (50 flights)	Location Hundred House, Brecon, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary On landing approach in moderate thermic conditions the pilot induced a spin below a height at which the pilot could recover normal flight. This led to a heavy impact and subsequent injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine

Date 05.05.2016 (F11165)	Pilot male Age: 62	Location Rushup Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Ion Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot inflated wing and noticed cravat on left side. He attempted to clear it but took off anyway. He continued to attempt to clear the cravat but caused the glider to pendulum. The glider then entered a left turn and the pilot impacted the slope heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 23.04.2016 (F11162)	Pilot male	Location Lords Seat, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: unknown Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot on speed wing got blown back in strong winds and crashed behind a wall where there would have been severe turbulence.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)

Date 17.04.2016 (F11161)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: EP under training Flying Experience: 11 years 15 flights (1 flight)	Location Sopot, Sopot, BG Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design adam Launch Type: foot	Summary Student fell over on to side due to line over wingtip causing glider to go off to one side.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 17.04.2016 (F11159)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 53 flights	Location Corn Ridge, Dartmoor, 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 tequila 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot stalled glider at low level in turbulent, thermic conditions. Pilot impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 09.04.2016 (F11155)	Pilot Age: 42 Flying Experience: 11 years 18 flights	Location Woldingham Valley, Surrey, UK	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Hiway Stubby Launch Type: foot	Summary Student flared too early. As the glider descended the student's arm hit the upright.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder Passenger: unhurt

Date 02.04.2016 (F11150)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 25 flights (1 flight)	Location Beachhead, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot twisted his foot on touchdown during normal landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), 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 14.03.2016 (F11141)	Pilot male Age: 33 Rating: P (10 flights)	Location Traprain Law, East Lothian, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse on take off, side impact into rocks.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, feet, legs

Date 13.03.2016 (F11139)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 231 flights (24 flights)	Location Pandy, Abergavenny SE Wales, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Puma Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was on his 2nd flight on high a performance glider. Light winds in landing field. The pilot misjudged his flare and the glider nosed in. Pilot swung through frame and dislocated shoulder. Minor glider damage	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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