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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 1229 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 22.06.2026 (F19411)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years	Location Semer Water, Hawes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gingo Airlite 4 PG harness Launch Type: foot	Summary During coaching activity, the coach and pilot became aware that the paraglider harness shoulder strap had failed. Upon inspection it was revealed that significant corrosion had occurred to the aluminium buckle at the shoulder, and it had catastrophically failed. The buckle was shrouded with a neoprene cover.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 20.06.2026 (F19408)	Pilot male Age: 67 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years 996 flights (39 flights)	Location Long Mynd, Church Stretton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base 2 Lite Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider pilot made an approach to land from a southerly direction and inadvertently induced a spin when turning the paraglider into wind. The pilot landed on their back, falling approximately three metres.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 20.06.2026 (F19393)	Pilot male Age: 29 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 30 flights (30 flights)	Location Home setup, Renfrew, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Range X-Alps 3 harness Launch Type: foot	Summary During a hang check prior to first use of this paraglider harness, the stitching of the load-bearing seat connection straps failed under the pilot's bodyweight. The manufacturer and dealer have been notified.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 14.06.2026 (F19381)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 36 years 2450 flights (40 flights)	Location Creag Ruadh, Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), very strong turbulence (unable to maintain control, even with constant pilot action)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot experienced a departure from normal flight in turbulent air and successfully deployed their emergency parachute. The pilot was aware that the paraglider was causing a downplane effect which significantly increased their sink rate under the emergency parachute. They elected to detach the paraglider by cutting its lines. This was carried out and the pilot landed successfully under the emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 29.05.2026 (F19300)	Pilot female Age: 51 Rating: Ippi 5 Flying Experience: 4 years 300 flights (2 flights)	Location Malvern West Beacon, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot launched in a west-southwesterly wind and did not detect that the wind direction had changed to west-northwest when they chose to top land. As a result they made a fast landing approach and impacted a rock which caused injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 25.05.2026 (F19421)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 3 years 100 flights (15 flights)	Location Dungiven NW and Dungiven W, Northern Ireland, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Theta ULS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot landed heavily in changing conditions, and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 10.05.2026 (F19198)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years	Location Treak Cliffe, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 6	Summary The pilot became aware that the emergency parachute deployment handle was not secured by its deployment pins and was hanging freely in flight. Aware of the risk of inadvertent deployment the pilot landed safely as soon as possible and re-installed the pins.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.05.2026 (F19380)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 3 years 105 flights (5 flights)	Location Sgorr Gaoithe (Cromadale Hills), Speyside/Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Breeze Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot sustained injuries after losing control of the paraglider and being dragged on to rocks.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 02.03.2026 (F19006)	Pilot male Age: 31 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 409 flights	Location Mam Tor East, Sheffield, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Elan 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Upon launch in strong conditions the pilot noticed a small wingtip cravatte and inadvertently induced a parachute stall in an effort to clear the cravatte. They allowed the wing to regain airspeed and resumed normal flight. The pilot identified an imperfect layout on launch, and cited a perceived need to correct the cravatte as soon as possible, and overcontrol, as contributory factors.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 16.01.2026 (F13007)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Du Toits Kloof Pass, Paarl, ZA Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot clipped a tree on landing approach, snapping a stabilo line.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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