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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 1345 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 10.08.2013 (F10781)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: Incident Pilot Flying Experience: 29 years	Location Merthyr, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot had mid air collision with another paraglider pilot. Both pilots flew on.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture)

Date 10.08.2013 (F10779)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 700 flights	Location Pontypool, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot encountered unexpected lift on approach and made extra turn to lose height. Applied excessive brake and spun glider. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 20.07.2013 (F10648)	Pilot male	Location Woldingham Valley, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron	Summary Student launched glider but went off line. Second student dived out of the way to avoid and dislocated shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 17.07.2013 (F10761)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 1000 flights	Location High and Over, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary While attempting to thermal the pilot drifted too far back over the hill at a low height into an area of rotor. Pilot hit rotor and was dumped down heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 14.07.2013 (F10753)	Pilot male	Location White Horse, Wesybury, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot launched with asymmetric collapse and was immediately turned back into the hill from approx 5m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, lumbar spine

Date 13.07.2013 (F10766)	Pilot male Age: 61	Location St Catherines, Isle of Wight, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary During practice launch run the student allowed the glider to overfly him. The instructor told him to apply some brake but the student did not. Glider pulled student over.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 12.07.2013 (F10762)	Pilot male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 1000 flights	Location Morzine, FR Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Astral 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary On final approach pilot was lifted by thermal then dumped back down from 4m. Pilot suspects he may have had too much brake applied.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine

Date 07.07.2013 (F10771)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 19 years 400 flights	Location Whitewool, Isle of Wight, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Spider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was distracted while on approach by another paraglider ground handling his wing. Pilot turned into wind too low and with too much ground speed. Landed heavily. The cow was not involved!	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 07.07.2013 (F10769)	Pilot male Age: 33 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 200 flights	Location Fan Gyhirych, Brecon, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot inflated glider but had a brake line caught. He tried to deflate glider but was lifted off the hill. Glider turned and pilot crashed downwind on 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 07.07.2013 (F10754)	Pilot male	Location Blorenge, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on approach then stalled glider in from approx 20m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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