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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 16.01.2026 (F13002)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P	Location Eyam Edge, Derbyshire, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was not able to operate their accelerator system inside their Niviuk Arrow (pod harness) in flight. Upon investigation the pilot identified that a loop on the speedbar line was caught on the waist strap system and was no longer routed correctly. This was hidden from view by the pocket and instrument clip.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 14.01.2026 (F13001)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 450 flights (15 flights)	Location Bischling, Werfenweg, AT Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent, leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Paradis Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was thermalling and induced a tight turn which led to a collapse with twisted lines. The pilot deployed their emergency parachute which did not open fully before the pilot crashed through the tree canopy, due to the low height above ground at which the incident occurred.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.01.2026 (F12999)	Pilot male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 32 years 706 flights (6 flights)	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flow Paragliders Fusion	Summary The pilot discovered that multiple conflicting line specifications exist for this paraglider (hard copy, two online manual versions, and a separate spec from the manufacturer), with differences of up to 16 mm.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 05.01.2026 (F13000)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 1533 flights (110 flights)	Location Mam Tor NW, Edale, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: unknown, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flow Paragliders Fusion Light Launch Type: foot	Summary Whist attempting a reverse launch in switching winds and on frozen slippery ground, the pilot was pulled over. A radio carried in a front pocket concentrated the force of the impact in that area of the body, resulting in minor injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, thorax

Date 04.01.2026 (F12997)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 5 years 254 flights (30 flights)	Location Trentishoe, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Libra RS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was dragged into a wall when top landing in strong and gusty conditions.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 31.12.2025 (F13010)	Pilot male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 700 flights (40 flights)	Location Schwarzenberg, Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg, AT Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeolite GT Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was seeking thermic lift and inadvertently induced a spin. The pilot landed through trees, hitting the ground and sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, thoracic spine

Date 31.12.2025 (F12995)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1 year 49 flights (3 flights)	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon DLS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot encountered sinking air immediately after take-off, snagging their side-mounted emergency parachute deployment handle on a bush. This initiated a release of the emergency parachute which deployed and caught on a bush, stopping the flight.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 30.12.2025 (F12996)	Pilot male Rating: CP	Location Telegraph Hill, East Lothian, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary On a coastal ridge in strong, gusty conditions, the paraglider experienced an asymmetric collapse shortly after take-off and entered a spin. The pilot then impacted the hillside, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, head injuries

Date 20.12.2025 (F18961)	Pilot male Age: 70 Flying Experience: 29 years 700 flights (33 flights)	Location Witchy Knowe, Ettrick Valley, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: SupAir Step X Launch Type: foot	Summary After 25 minutes of flight the pilot noticed the wind increasing, making penetration into wind difficult. They were gale-hanging on full speedbar above their chosen landing area, gradually drifting backwards towards a wall. Upon releasing the speed bar they descended rapidly and landed hard, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 19.12.2025 (F13009)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 22 years 800 flights (80 flights)	Location Porterville, PV valley, ZA Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was thermalling and attempting to achieve a 'low save' during a competition flight in strong thermic conditions with moderate turbulence. They collided with the hillside and were dragged along the ground, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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