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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:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
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• Other

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 1262 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 06.04.2015 (F11013)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 38 years 1900 flights (31 flights)	Location Monks Down, Berwick St John, Nr Shaftesbury, 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: Bruce Goldsmith Design Tala Launch Type: foot	Summary On approach to a top landing the pilot encountered severe turbulence at low level. the glider suffered a massive asymmetric collapse and then stalled. Pilot impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, lumbar spine
Date 22.02.2015 (F10990)	Pilot male Age: 17 Rating: Unqualified	Location Waldingfield Airfield, Sudbury, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Untrained and unqualified pilot was attempting to paraglide by being towed behind a car. He was using a fixed line with no release mechanism or weak link.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, cervical spine
Date 02.02.2015 (F10994)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Ronda la Vieja, Ronda, ES Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to control glider on landing and was dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 26.01.2015 (F10981)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 500 flights (15 flights)	Location Sarangkot, Pokhara, NP Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Raven Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot fell over on aborted launch and did not realise his parachute deployment handle had become detached. On attempting to launch again and hearing shouts, the pilot deliberately stalled his glider but was carried over the edge falling onto a path just over 1m below.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 24.01.2015 (F10976)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 26 flights (5 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Inkpen, Berkshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot found himself scratching progressively lower down the hill. Pilot impacted still in seated position and was propelled forward on to his front sustaining an injury to his shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 21.01.2015 (F10978)	Pilot male Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 35 flights	Location Kahundada, Pokhara, NP Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was overshooting landing area and began to turn. Pilot was told to fly straight into wind and made large control input resulting in a swinging turn into the ground. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 28.12.2014 (F10965)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: AP (100 flights)	Location St Catherines, Isle of Wight, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot fell over on take off, on uneven ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 16.12.2014 (F10960)	Pilot male Age: 30 25 flights (1 flight)	Location Gribbles, Newhaven, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ozone Mojo 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was slope landing, landed awkwardly, twisted lower leg, on grassy terrain. He mention that he might have turned into the hill too much at last moment.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 15.12.2014 (F10963)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: CP 78 flights (12 flights)	Location taucho, tenerife, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: advance alpha 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot sunk out and had no option but to land on dirt track. Pilot overshot track and landed in storm gully, impacting the side wall.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs
Date 07.11.2014 (F10955)	Pilot male Age: 50 6 flights	Location legzira bowl, sidi ifni, MA Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ozone Buzz Z 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Having carried out a perfect flight, the student made non-briefed, low turn on final approach in order to land "closer to the spot". Student crashed into parked car.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Last updated: 24 August 2026

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