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All incident reports submitted via the old pan Europe incident reporting system, that had been approved for publication prior to 21 January 2026, can be found below.

Incident reports submitted via the new FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system after 21 January 2026 that have been approved for publication can be found on our FIDA Incident reports page

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

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Incident reports for paraglider wings are displayed below in summary form.

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There are 2555 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 15.03.2014 (E978)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: Trainee Flying Experience: 12 years	Location Woldingham Valley, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Freex Freex trainer Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student stumbled during reverse inflation attempt and caught finger on ground.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 08.03.2014 (E872)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 4 flights (4 flights)	Location The Warren, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach height and over flew landing area. Pilot landed in the sea but was able to get away from his glider immediately.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.03.2014 (E932)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 25 hours (4 hours) 58 flights (6 flights)	Location Beer Head, Dorset Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot made approach with insufficient height and from wrong direction in prevailing conditions. Got caught in rotor and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 01.03.2014 (E855)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 155 hours (15 hours) 218 flights (11 flights)	Location Stanage, Sheffield, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring at approx 25m AGL two gliders were heading in the same direction down the ridge. One slightly in front and lower than the other. At the end of the beat the lower, lead glider turned and was pushed out from the ridge by the terrain. The gliders narrowly missed each other.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.03.2014 (E859)	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 70 hours (13 hours) 51 flights (17 flights)	Location Stannage Edge, Derbyshire Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While soaring on a busy ridge the pilot found himself in a situation where he had to take rapid evasive action to avoid a collision with another paraglider. Both pilots took avoiding action and narrowly missed a collision.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.03.2014 (E864)	Pilot Female Rating: Pilot (Hill+Tow) Flying Experience: 350 hours (10 hours) 200 flights (14 flights)	Location Stanage, Peak District Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot narrowly avoided a midair collision while soaring in light conditions on a busy ridge.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.03.2014 (E868)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 118 hours (5 hours) 36 flights (6 flights)	Location Barton on Sea, New Milton, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off with a twisted brake line. He attempted to get height to sort it out but sunk out and crashing on to a ledge.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Thoracic Spine
Date 19.02.2014 (E741)	Pilot Male Age: 54 Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 6 flights (6 flights)	Location Eyam edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Muse 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student applied excessive brake on landing and reversed into dry stone wall.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.02.2014 (E674)	Pilot Male Age: 42 23 flights	Location Trainor, Laragne, France Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student was late getting out of harness for landing and did not flare so landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 16.02.2014 (E871)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 400 hours	Location Cross Fell, North Pennines, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Nevada Launch Type: Foot	Summary After two attempts to take off in a cross wind the pilot managed to launch but had a knot in the upper lines of one side of the wing. Pilot managed to land safely using weight shift.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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