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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 10.08.2025 (F12931)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years 800 flights (40 flights)	Location Beatenberg, Berner Oberland, CH Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Photon Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was performing wingovers and inadvertently induced a spin. They deployed their emergency parachute and landed in a tree.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 10.08.2025 (F12918)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: AP 752 flights (60 flights)	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Libra RS Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary The pilot inadvertently induced a spin close to ground level, whilst attempting to stay in thermic lift. They lost control of the paraglider and deployed their emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 09.08.2025 (F12915)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 36 years (50 flights)	Location unknown, FR Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Volt 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was thermalling when their emergency parachute accidentally deployed (not initiated by the pilot). They landed under the emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 08.08.2025 (F12919)	Pilot female Age: 59 Rating: IPPI Flying Experience: 7 years 242 flights (13 flights)	Location Beer Head, Beer, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary the pilot made an approach to top land, descending through rotor. They experienced multiple collapses and impacted the ground, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 06.08.2025 (F12914)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 7 years 90 flights (2 flights)	Location Mendlesham, Ashfield, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 3 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary The pilot made a cross wind landing approach which was not corrected in time for an into wind landing. The hang glider impacted the ground and the pilot sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 02.08.2025 (F12907)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 3 years (20 flights)	Location Devils Dyke, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon DLS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was on approach to a top landing and made contact with the upper surface of a paraglider launching below them. Corrective manoeuvres were made and both flew away.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 30.07.2025 (F12911)	Pilot Unknown	Location none, none, UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Ozone Angel emergency parachute	Summary Large sewn patch repairs to this emergency parachute were noted by an Emergency Parachute Systems licence holder, during a repack.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 26.07.2025 (F12905)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 63 flights (15 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was blown back over the hilltop in an increasing wind. They encountered rotor near to the ground which brought about a landing in a tree.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 26.07.2025 (F12904)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years	Location Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base Launch Type: foot	Summary On approach to top land in gusty conditions, the paraglider was seen to suffer an asymmetric collapse close to the ground and the pilot was unable to regain control before impact.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 25.07.2025 (F12900)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 50 years 2500 flights (40 flights)	Location Ager, Ager, ES Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: very strong (>5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Rigid hang glider Wing: A.I.R Atos VR Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot noted that the glider was nose-heavy in flight. On landing, the adjustable tailplane detached from its assembly. The pilot cited incorrect fitting of the tailplane to its moving mount, which was not detected during their pre-flight check.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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