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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 16.07.2025 (F12916)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 54 flights (10 flights)	Location Carn Liath, Creag Meagaidh/Highlands, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Eazy 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot made a downwind landing approach in an area adjacent to the landing field. They sustained injury when they impacted the bank of a ditch in a seated position in their harness.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), thoracic spine, lumbar spine

Date 12.07.2025 (F12889)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 30 flights (13 flights)	Location Pandy, South East Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the wind direction and ground speed when landing on uneven ground at a new site (to them).	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 11.07.2025 (F12928)	Pilot female Age: 35 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years (30 flights)	Location Obersteinberg, Bernese Oberland, CH Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega ULS Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported that shortly after take-off the glider accelerated and then suffered an asymmetric collapse. The pilot performed a recovery but the energy of the manoeuvre in proximity to the terrain led to a spiral to the ground, where they sustained injury. The pilot noted that the acceleration may have been caused by the speed system possibly being stuck in an activated position inside their pod harness.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 11.07.2025 (F12888)	Pilot male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years (50 flights)	Location Bradwell Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flow Paragliders Mystic Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was scratching in weak lift close to the ground within the site's bowl. They encountered sinking air which brought about a slope landing, the glider settling on a tree.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.07.2025 (F12898)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 1980 flights (40 flights)	Location Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 5 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot inadvertently induced a spin when encountering sinking air. They impacted the ground, landing on foliage which dampened the impact.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 08.07.2025 (F12887)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 24 years 85 flights (2 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Blandford Forum, 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: BGD Epic 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot attempted a slope landing and misjudged their approach, landing fast slightly up the slope.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 08.07.2025 (F12886)	Pilot male Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years (40 flights)	Location Liddington, Chiseldon, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider suffered an asymmetric collapse when flying close to the ground and the pilot landed hard in a seated position.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 03.07.2025 (F12977)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Devils Dyke, Isle of Sheppy, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Boomerang 12 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse while entering a strong thermal at low altitude and attempted to maintain the turn whilst pumping out the deflation, ultimately inducing a series of stalls and partial recoveries. The pilot deployed their emergency parachute after the third stall and partial recovery, with only three seconds between opening and ground impact. Post-incident inspection showed extensive right-control line breaks, though it is unclear whether these occurred during the collapse, the stall recoveries, or the EP deployment.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries

Date 03.07.2025 (F12882)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 800 flights (90 flights)	Location Beacon Hill, Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was lifted by a gust during launch and dragged over the hill, ending up on the lee side after being swung into the slope. The pilot managed to gain control of the wing and land further down the lee side of the slope.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, pelvis

Date 30.06.2025 (F12884)	Pilot male Age: 63 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 5 years 300 flights (90 flights)	Location High and Over, Alfriston, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot left insufficient height to turn into wind on approach to a top landing, and struck the ground whilst flying cross wind.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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