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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:

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• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
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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 08.10.2015 (F11107)	Pilot male Age: 63 Flying Experience: 11 years 7 flights (3 flights)	Location Kimmeridge, Nr. Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird raven Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot got into difficulties while top landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis
Date 03.10.2015 (F11104)	Pilot female Age: 55 Rating: Unqualified 1 flight	Location Fochriw/Bedlinog Bowl, Torfaen, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Spark Launch Type: foot	Summary Student sat down on launch and glider over flew and pulled student over. Glider then pulled student down the slope.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 25.09.2015 (F11100)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilots had mid-air collision while soaring and thermalling on busy ridge. One of the pilots suffered an asymmetric collapse and spiralled into the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine
Date 22.09.2015 (F11099)	Pilot female Age: 30 Rating: Under EP Instruction Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Quatro Mohones, Algodonales, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student had good take off while attempting a 'low hop' flight but as she became airborne she applied excessive brake. She was instructed to 'ease off' the brakes but instead released them immediately resulting in a dive towards the ground and subsequent heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 19.09.2015 (F11096)	Pilot male Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Catacol, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: foot	Summary Paraglider pilots had mid-air collision while soaring a ridge on the Isle of Arran. One pilot deployed his parachute and landed safely, the other impacted with the cliff and sustained serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine, cervical spine
Date 18.09.2015 (F11126)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Fleetwith Pike, Lake District, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paraglider while in close proximity to fellside, while on cross country flight.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, internal injuries, thorax
Date 09.09.2015 (F11089)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 200 flights (16 flights)	Location Forclas, Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was unable to control wing on launch as it came up asymmetrically due to the wind being off centre. Pilot ran off launch area into shrubs and wedged foot.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 12.08.2015 (F11084)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 30 flights (20 flights)	Location Kobala, Soca valley, SI Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent, front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and ran out of landing area forcing a turn at low level.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 08.08.2015 (F11078)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: CP with sub 20 qualification Flying Experience: 17 years 150 flights (10 flights)	Location Disgwylfa Fawr, Nr Aberystwyth, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn Thriller Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to control a wingover performed at low level. Pilot managed to steer the wing to prevent 'head on' impact with the hill but landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis
Date 08.08.2015 (F11076)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 562 flights (12 flights)	Location Eyam Edge, Eyam, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot felt glider surge forward and so applied full brake. Glider stalled and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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