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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 13.03.2016 (F11142)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 37 years (6 flights)	Location Treak Cliff, Castleton, Derbyshire, 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: Ozone Swift 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary On take off pilot accidentally, and without realising, applied full speed bar while getting feet into pod harness. Approx 30 seconds into the flight the glider suffered a symmetric collapse at low level. Pilot impacted heavily on his side.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 04.03.2016 (F11138)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 120 flights (4 flights)	Location Butser west, Portsmouth/ Clanfied, 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: Nova Mentor Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land but his glider stalled, without control input, from approx 1-1.5m. Pilot landed heavily with outstretched arm.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 25.02.2016 (F11136)	Pilot male Age: 51 6 flights (2 flights)	Location Tailbridge Hill, Nateby, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-turn Infinity 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student fell over having landed on top, into wind very well executed with glider down, then foot stuck in divot as he fell to one side - twisting his ankle.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 24.02.2016 (F11148)	Pilot male Age: 56 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 119 flights (6 flights)	Location Tamaimo- nr Los Gigantes, Tenerife, ES Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged his approach and lost more height than expected while on the downwind leg. Pilot crashed into a wall before being able to turn into wind.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 18.02.2016 (F11133)	Pilot male Age: 67 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Uffington-white-horse, Uffington, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot flew into an area that was out of wind and encountered lee-side turbulence. Glider suffered asymmetric collapse then dived. Pilot crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, internal injuries, pelvis, feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 15.02.2016 (F11135)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P 501 flights (40 flights)	Location Roldanillo, Roldanillo, CO Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera+ Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot spun glider while adopting "aggressive" S turns on final approach in fifty conditions.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 06.02.2016 (F11130)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 200 flights (6 flights)	Location Matalascanas, Matalascanas, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot encountered turbulent, sinking air while flying very close to a cliff. Glider suffered collapse and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)

Date 13.01.2016 (F11128)	Pilot female Age: 56 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 45 flights (21 flights)	Location Macher, Lanzarote, Macher, ES Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was looking to bottom land when she encountered severe thermic turbulence. Pilot landed heavily from approx 8m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine, lumbar spine, cervical spine

Date 22.11.2015 (F11132)	Pilot male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 22 years (20 flights)	Location Bishopstone cliffs, Herne Bay, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening winds while coastal soaring. Pilot was on full speedbar when glider suffered an asymmetric collapse. Glider rotated and pilot struck hill in standing position.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs, lumbar spine, thorax

Date 03.11.2015 (F11121)	Pilot male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 490 flights (45 flights)	Location Taucho, Adeje, Tenerife, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sports 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot hit sink when attempting to thermal close to rocky spine. Pilot impacted hard.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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