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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 26.09.2010 (B4506)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn U2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered spin at low level while flying tandem landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Chipped vertebra

Date 26.09.2010 (B4505)	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Corn Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was overflown by police helicopter with a height difference of approx 200ft.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 19.09.2010 (B4503)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: CP	Location Otivar, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged height on approach and in bleeding off height encountered severe sink. Pilot hit roadside barrier.	Injury Pilot: Fractured spine

Date 19.09.2010 (B4502)	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: P	Location Dungiven West, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paramania Rev 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to top land due to increasing wind. Touched down but was dragged into boulder.	Injury Pilot: 3 fractured ribs and collapsed lung.

Date 16.09.2010 (B4501)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location St Agnes, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while on approach. Struck rock.	Injury Pilot: Fractured knee

Date 12.09.2010 (B4499)	Pilot Female Age: 26 Rating: Under training	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student grabbed line as glider was caught by wind.	Injury Pilot: Line burn to hand

Date 05.09.2010 (B4497)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Spain Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Ellus 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot hit sink on approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractured l1 and l2 vertebrae

Date 05.09.2010 (B4496)	Pilot Female Age: 12 Rating: Under training	Location North Luffenham Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Voyager 42 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Just prior to launch gust lifted and rotated glider and wing tip holder let go. Pilot and passenger fell over.	Injury Pilot: Bruised wrist

Date 01.09.2010 (B4495)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Boomerang GTO Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary While racing at low height Pilot ended up in severe leeside turbulence. Glider ended up below pilot who then threw parachute. Landed uninjured.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 31.08.2010 (B4494)	Pilot Female Age: 40 Rating: Under training	Location Charlton Clumps, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary On first flight student took a few steps but then jumped before glider properly flying. Fell heavily on knee.	Injury Pilot: Torn ligaments in knee

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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