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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 02.06.2013 (F10798)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Rushup Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bi Golden Launch Type: foot	Summary While coming in for a slope landing the wind changed to a slight tail wind and the pilot encountered significant sink. Pilot landed fast with his leg extended.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 01.06.2013 (F10742)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 33 years	Location XClent, Roel Gate, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Factor 2 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Pilot tripped while on takeoff run. Fell and broke arm.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 22.05.2013 (F10730)	Pilot male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 400 flights	Location Hayle Towans, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Little Cloud Spiruline 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was "too lazy" to walk up and so decided to top land. Was caught out by rotor and glider sustained a full frontal collapse. Pilot impacted hard from 10m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 20.05.2013 (F10723)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Planfait, Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in thermic and turbulent conditions. Glider suffered an asymmetric collapse and the pilot did not counter the dive. Glider suffered second asymmetric collapse and again pilot did not counter the dive. Pilot crashed heavily into trees.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), feet, legs

Date 19.05.2013 (F10736)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 41 years	Location Lords Seat, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Peak 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary While thermalling Pilot was caught out by rotor from rounded knoll some 150m in front. Glider stalled in rotor and fell vertically from 15m. Pilot landed heavily	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 19.05.2013 (F10734)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 76 flights	Location Model Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Oasis Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot became too close to the hill while scratching in weak lift. Pilot caught foot on rock.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 19.05.2013 (F10725)	Pilot male Rating: CP	Location Model Ridge, North Yorkshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Oasis Launch Type: foot	Summary Incident not witnessed. Pilot called for help having turned into the hill approx 20m from the top of the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 17.05.2013 (F10739)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years 250 flights	Location Mercury, Wetherdown, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted to land in strong wind in an area known to be turbulent when the wind was strong. Glider stalled at approx 3-5m and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 17.05.2013 (F10724)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years	Location Mercury, Meon Valley, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land due to increase in wind strength and shift in wind direction. Pilot caught out by rotor causing wing to slew sideways on approach. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 06.05.2013 (F10717)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Hornet Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Glider went off line during tow launch and suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level. Driver backed off power but pilot landed heavily on his back.	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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