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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 01.04.2012 (F10591)	Pilot male Age: 48 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 149 flights	Location Bradwell Edge, Deryshire, AT Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by rotor on landing in increasing wind strength.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine, lumbar spine

Date 26.03.2012 (F10595)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 23 years 93 flights	Location Pinnacle Hill, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Makalu Launch Type: foot	Summary After two failed launches the pilot did not realise he had turned to face the glider in the opposite way to his normal routine. On launching the third time the pilot found he had a full twist in his risers. The pilot was lifted by a gust and crashed sideways.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 22.03.2012 (F10585)	Pilot male Age: 30 Rating: Trainee 33 flights	Location Trainon, Laragne, FR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha Launch Type: foot	Summary Student had good flight but made final turn in to wind a little too late. Landed with slight pendulum.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 21.03.2012 (F10590)	Pilot male Age: 41 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 188 flights	Location Ffarmers, Lampeter, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint Evo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost height unexpectedly while ridge soaring and could not turn away from the ridge in time to prevent impact.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, pelvis, feet, legs

Date 18.03.2012 (F10589)	Pilot female Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Cenes, ES 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: Advance Epsilon 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse in turbulent air resulting in twisted risers and spiral dive. Pilot successfully deployed emergency parachute but landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 16.03.2012 (F10594)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Agruegour, MA Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Despite being told to head out to landing area, student continued to attempt to soar. Student lost height and was forced to make cross slope landing to avoid power lines.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 12.03.2012 (F10582)	Pilot male Age: 55 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 19 years 389 flights	Location Bradwell Edge, 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 Delta Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot made two failed launch attempts before finally managing to become airborne under control.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 11.03.2012 (F10588)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 37 years	Location Leadlich, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot launched in variable conditions and suffered an asymmetric collapse shortly after launch. Glider then stalled and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine, thorax

Date 11.03.2012 (F10581)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 200 flights	Location Driffield Airfield, Driffield, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Pilot went off line during tow launch. Winch operator cut the line but pilot did not control the dive and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine, thorax

Date 08.03.2012 (F10583)	Pilot male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 400 flights	Location Portland West, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot underestimated the change in wind direction and landed heavily crosswind on rising ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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