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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 02.06.2025 (F12852)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paraglider Unknown model Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the landing approach, and landed in the landing field designated for sailplanes. No other aircraft were nearby at the time.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 28.05.2025 (F12849)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 600 flights (20 flights)	Location Tailbridge, Yorkshire Dales, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Puma Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was making a second flight on their new wing. After lift-off, the pilot pulled on speed to to fly away from the hill and brought about pilot-induced oscillations which worsened with increasingly large control inputs, ultimately resulting in a crash 30 seconds later in the bottom landing field, breaking an upright.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 28.05.2025 (F12847)	Pilot male Age: 67 Rating: AP	Location Shining Tor, Buxton, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was observed being dragged on the launch area.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, cervical spine

Date 23.05.2025 (F12851)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 891 flights (33 flights)	Location Carn Mor, Chapeltown of Glenlivet, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alpina 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot made a running reverse launch and tripped on heather, twisting their knee and sustaining an injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 20.05.2025 (F12845)	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Halo PG harness	Summary An inspection of an emergency parachute system was carried out following an unplanned opening of the emergency parachute compartment. It was reported that the closure loop had not been inserted through the harness grommets, in contravention with the manufacturer’s instructions.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 17.05.2025 (F12850)	Pilot male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years 360 flights (7 flights)	Location Leckhampton, Cheltenham, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot made a low turn on landing approach to avoid an electric fence and landed heavily, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs

Date 11.05.2025 (F12848)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 126 flights (6 flights)	Location Pandy, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, unknown	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Aeros Discus Launch Type: foot	Summary On landing approach the pilot manoeuvred to avoid power lines and stalled the right wing, causing a sharp turn close to the ground. On landing, the pilot noticed that the VG was still on.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 11.05.2025 (F12839)	Pilot male Age: 26 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years (8 flights)	Location Mt Caburn, East Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alta Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was blown into the lee of the hill in a gust front, and experienced a number of asymmetric collapses.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.05.2025 (F12837)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 1200 flights (56 flights)	Location Pinnacle Hill, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bonanza 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot encountered strong lift in turbulent conditions and their paraglider suffered a collapse which developed into an autorotation with twisted risers. The pilot descended under their emergency parachute, landing on a high hedge, from which they fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, head injuries

Date 04.05.2025 (F12832)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 400 flights (20 flights)	Location Dirt Low, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Meru 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot lost control of the paraglider on launch is gusty conditions and was lifted and dropped back to the ground.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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