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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 01.11.2015 (F11664)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 300 flights (70 flights)	Location Private field, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron XX Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot came in to land in nil wind and came in on a fast approach and caught foot on a grass clump, which twisted his leg breaking it just above the boot. Pilot drove himself to hospital. Leg in plaster for 6 weeks.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 27.10.2015 (F11302)	Pilot female Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 28 years 500 flights (50 flights)	Location Billing, Himachal Pradesh, India, Bir, IN Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Icepeak 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered a cascade collapse incident while flying in a competition in India. The pilot was unable to recover the glider despite stalling twice in an attempt to 'reset' the wing. Pilot landed heavily in a 'tail slide'. Subsequent inspection showed the brake lines had shrunk by 16cm after less than 50 hours. This resulted in brake being applied inadvertently when full bar was applied.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, cervical spine

Date 18.10.2015 (F11117)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 700 flights (30 flights)	Location Whitby, Whitby, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 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 misjudged crossing and ended up low in lee of harbour wall. Pilot accidentally spun glider attempting to avoid sea and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, thoracic spine

Date 12.10.2015 (F11110)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years	Location Wolf Crag, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Parakite/Speedflyer/Miniwing (foot-launched) Wing: Ozone Zero Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while speedflying and was unable to recover in height available.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 09.10.2015 (F11108)	Pilot male	Location Darley moor, Ashbourne, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Whilst being towed up on a paraglider and at approximately 3m above the ground, the tow line broke and the student landed heavily on his back side. He did not keep his legs down as instructed.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 08.10.2015 (F11107)	Pilot male Age: 63 Flying Experience: 11 years 7 flights (3 flights)	Location Kimmeridge, Nr. Corfe Castle, Dorset, 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: Firebird raven Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot got into difficulties while top landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 03.10.2015 (F11104)	Pilot female Age: 55 Rating: Unqualified 1 flight	Location Fochriw/Bedlinog Bowl, Torfaen, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Spark Launch Type: foot	Summary Student sat down on launch and glider over flew and pulled student over. Glider then pulled student down the slope.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 25.09.2015 (F11100)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, 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: Niviuk Hook Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilots had mid-air collision while soaring and thermalling on busy ridge. One of the pilots suffered an asymmetric collapse and spiralled into the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 22.09.2015 (F11099)	Pilot female Age: 30 Rating: Under EP Instruction Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Quatro Mohones, Algodonales, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student had good take off while attempting a 'low hop' flight but as she became airborne she applied excessive brake. She was instructed to 'ease off' the brakes but instead released them immediately resulting in a dive towards the ground and subsequent heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 19.09.2015 (F11096)	Pilot male Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Catacol, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: foot	Summary Paraglider pilots had mid-air collision while soaring a ridge on the Isle of Arran. One pilot deployed his parachute and landed safely, the other impacted with the cliff and sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine, cervical spine

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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