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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).

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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 1229 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date

Pilot

Location

Wing Type

Summary

Injury
Incident Reports
Date
15.10.2011

(B4605)
Pilot
Male

Age:
52

Rating:
CP
Location
Glyders,
UK

Wind Strength:
12-19 km/h

Conditions:
Variable

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Gradient
Aspen 3

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot entered stall while thermalling. Glider rotated before stalling again. Pilot did not attempt to deploy emergency parachute and landed heavily.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr l1 and l2 vertebrae
Date
15.10.2011

(B4604)
Pilot
Male

Age:
40

Rating:
Under training
Location
Muggery Bottom,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Atom

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student had perfect flight with good flare and soft landing. Somehow dislocated patella.
Injury
Pilot:
Dislocated patella.
Date
11.10.2011

(B4603)
Pilot
Male

Age:
67

Rating:
Under training
Location
Lijar Levante,
Spain

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Element

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student suffered mid-air collision with student from another school. Both landed safely.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
01.10.2011

(B4600)
Pilot
Male

Age:
25

Rating:
Under training
Location
Muggery Bottom,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Apco
Prima

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student landed in gentle turn and did not flare hard enough. Landed awkwardly.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr ankle
Date
30.09.2011

(B4599)

Formal Report
Pilot
Male

Age:
55

Rating:
CP
Location
Tinto,
UK

Wind Strength:
41-48 km/h

Conditions:
Gusts

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Swift

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)

Summary
Pilot was seen to take off in extremely strong winds before being blown back into a dry stone wall.
Injury
Pilot:
Fatal
Date
24.09.2011

(B4598)
Pilot
Male

Age:
32

Rating:
Under training
Location
Mount Caburn,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Airwave
Wave

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student failed to execute proper flare on landing.
Injury
Pilot:
Fr wrist
Date
20.09.2011

(B4597)
Pilot
Male

Age:
45

Rating:
CP
Location
Annecy,
France

Wind Strength:
12-19 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Buzz 3

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Pilot approached down wind and crashed into trees and house. Radio found to be on wrong frequency.
Injury
Pilot:
Injured back, ribs and concussion.
Date
18.09.2011

(B4596)
Pilot
Male

Age:
30

Rating:
Under training
Location
Devils Dyke,
UK

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Airwave
Logic

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student failed to follow flight plan and flew over trees. Realising he would not clear the trees he executed tree landing procedure.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
13.09.2011

(B4595)
Pilot
Male

Age:
58

Rating:
Under training
Location
Signal DBisanne,
France

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Independence
Cruzer 2

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student encountered unexpected sink on approach and glider caught on low voltage power line.
Injury
Pilot:
Unhurt
Date
12.09.2011

(B4594)
Pilot
Male

Age:
54

Rating:
Under training
Location
Planfait,
France

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady

Wing Type
Paraglider

Wing:
Aeros
Style 2

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)

Summary
Student lost control of glider while ridge soaring. Landed heavily.
Injury
Pilot:
Chipped teeth

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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