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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 30.03.2014 (F10847)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 495 flights (7 flights)	Location Labrador Bay, Teignmouth, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Zefira Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged local winds and flew into an area of severe turbulence. Rapid height loss necessitated an emergency landing on a rocky beach.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 30.03.2014 (F10839)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Labrador Bay, South Devon, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot missed sandy landing area and landed on rocky ledge but then fell forward off ledge onto rocks 1m below. Pilot's leg became trapped in rocks damaging ankle.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 16.03.2014 (F10843)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 23 flights (6 flights)	Location Butser Hill West, Petersfield, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot decided to slope land due to weak conditions. Pilot made turn towards the hill rather than away and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 16.03.2014 (F10834)	Pilot female Age: 41 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot spun glider on approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine

Date 18.02.2014 (F10652)	Pilot male Age: 42 23 flights	Location Trainor, Laragne, FR 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 (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 20.11.2013 (F10823)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Bir/Billing, Dharamsala, IN	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: foot	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 13.11.2013 (F10811)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 42 years 500 flights	Location Haresfield, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had asymmetric collapse and then spun into the ground before being bounced and dragged.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine, thorax

Date 11.11.2013 (F10816)	Pilot male Age: 67 28 flights	Location Agruegour, MA Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student was on soaring flight under instruction with the intention of maintaining height. At the end of one beat the student continued the turn as if to 360. Instructed to turn away but did not. Student flew into the side of the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 10.11.2013 (F10812)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 35 years	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was flying with large amount of brake while coming in to land at approx 2m off the ground. At this moment a tandem glider passed in front and the paraglider stalled dropping the pilot on his back.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 02.11.2013 (F10807)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 1 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in windy conditions and became pinned above the launch area. he then flew back into the leeside rotor and crash heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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