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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 1757 published incident report summaries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

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

Date 03.05.2025 (F12828)	Pilot male Age: 75 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 2000 flights (45 flights)	Location Maiden Castle, Dorchester, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 12DLS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was pulled to one side on launch and stumbled on the rough terrain.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 02.05.2025 (F12854)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 34 flights (6 flights)	Location Spelga Hill, Spelga Dam, Mourne Mountains, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Miura 2RS	Summary The pilot stepped on uneven ground whilst trying to abort a launch, sustaining injury when they lost their footing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 02.05.2025 (F12830)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years	Location Wessex White Horse, Sutton Poyntz, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged their landing approach, landing in a tree.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 30.04.2025 (F12829)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years (30 flights)	Location Aberdeen, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During an emergency parachute repack, it was found that the deployment handle was attached to the bridle rather than the correct installation point on the emergency parachute inner container. The harness and parachute had been obtained second-hand. The packer rectified the error and the pilot who supplied the harness and parachute was informed.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 29.04.2025 (F12827)	Pilot male Age: 62 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years 520 flights (12 flights)	Location Llantisilio, Lllangollen, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was attempting a reverse launch when the wing snagged on shrubs, partially inflated. It became inverted, with its leading edge on the ground. The pilot lost control of the paraglider and was dragged, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 28.04.2025 (F12841)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 68 flights (1 flight)	Location Shining Tor, Buxton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Aravis Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the wind direction and crosswind element and collided with a wall.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 28.04.2025 (F12831)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 4 years 1287 flights (110 flights)	Location Plaine Joux, Passy, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), rain, snow	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Volt 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot encountered heavy rain on a cross country flight and opted to fly in accelerated mode to a landing area. The pilot released the accelerator to use the controls to land and the paraglider entered a deep stall. The pilot fell through trees and sustained injury in the impact with the ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, feet, legs

Date 27.04.2025 (F12844)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 1000 flights (10 flights)	Location Mendlesham, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Moyes RX Pro Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary The pilot made a Controlled Airspace infringement, citing having the wrong airspace file set on their navigation instrument, and unfamiliarity with the local flying environment.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 24 August 2026

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