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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).

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If known, total flights flown and flights flown in the past six months are displayed below, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 1345 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date

Pilot

Location

Wing Type

Summary

Injury
Incident Reports
Date
18.08.2002

(B3515)
Pilot
Male

Age:
66
Location
North Luffenham,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-8 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Harley
988

Launch Type:
Vehicle/Boat Tow

Summary
Students feet slipped forward on landing resulting in him landing on his backside.
Injury
Pilot:
Pulled back muscles
Date
15.08.2002

(B3511)
Pilot
Unknown
Location
Muggery Bottom,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Summary
Student dislocated shoulder whilst pracising PLF.
Injury
Pilot:
Dislocated shoulder
Date
14.08.2002

(B3510)
Pilot
Unknown
Location
Muggery,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Apco
Prima

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student jumped into the seat whilst launching, slipped and fell over.
Injury
Pilot:
Suspected twisted ankle
Date
13.08.2002

(B3509)
Pilot
Female

Age:
43

Rating:
CP
Location
Beer Head,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot flying in the presence of orographic cloud encountered rising air that she found difficult to exit. Managed to lose height by applying speed bar and big ears. .
Injury
Unknown
Date
09.08.2002

(B3508)
Pilot
Male

Rating:
CP
Location
North Luffenham,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Sportlite

Launch Type:
Vehicle/Boat Tow

Summary
Spinnaker release failed to operate during tow launch despite several attempts.
Injury
Unknown
Date
06.08.2002

(B3507)
Pilot
Male

Age:
43

Rating:
P
Location
Perranporth,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Gin
Bandit

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot performing low level wing overs impacted the hill.
Injury
Pilot:
Broken pelvis (open book) dislocated elbow, torn bladder.
Date
03.08.2002

(B3502)
Pilot
Male

Age:
38
Location
High Edge- Training Field,
UK

Wing Type
Paraglider

Summary
Student injured neck whilst attempting PLF from kneeling position.
Injury
Unknown
Date
03.08.2002

(B3503)
Pilot
Male

Age:
51

Rating:
P
Location
Condover Feastival,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Gusts

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Freex Pure

Launch Type:
Winch Tow

Summary
Tow release webbing pulled riser through carabiner prior to tow launch. The webbing loop tightened around the speed bar line pulley area. This was noticed after take-off. Pilot released at 700ft and landed safely.
Injury
Unknown
Date
03.08.2002

(B3506)
Pilot
Male

Age:
37

Rating:
CP
Location
Parlick,
UK

Wind Strength:
16-24 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Advance
Epsilon 3

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot flying downwind to intended landing field realised that he would not reach the field. Having left himself no other landing options, and with a large ditch beneath him, the pilot opted to land downwind. He impacted the downwind side of the ditch.
Injury
Pilot:
Fractured l1 vertibrea, airlifted to royal preston hospital
Date
02.08.2002

(B3501)
Pilot
Male

Age:
47

Rating:
P
Location
Candover,
UK

Wind Strength:
8-16 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Sportlite 396

Launch Type:
Vehicle/Boat Tow

Summary
During tow launch the tow line finger trap loop came loose approximately 40 ft AGL. The pilot applkied brake to control the forward surge and impacted the ground feet first.
Injury
Pilot:
Bruising to lower back

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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