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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 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

Date 24.04.2013 (F10716)	Pilot male Age: 75 Rating: CP	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in strengthening winds and was blown along a fence line before being lifted by a gust and slammed to the ground from 3-5m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, thorax

Date 23.04.2013 (F10759)	Pilot male Age: 75 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years 300 flights	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off down hill as too strong on top. Pilot was then blown back over the top and lost control of his glider. Pilot crashed and was immediately lifted off by glider before crashing again.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, cervical spine, thorax

Date 22.04.2013 (F10720)	Pilot female Age: 55	Location Lijar, Algonodales, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila Launch Type: foot	Summary Student encountered lift on approach and attempted to tighten turn in order to land in landing field rather than use alternative field. Student allied too much brake and glider began to spin. On recovery student was swung into the ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 20.04.2013 (F10750)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 1500 flights	Location LLantsillio, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered 50% asymmetric collapse immediately after take off. Glider rotated 180 degrees and pilot struck hillside from 10-12m	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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