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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 28.06.2025 (F12906)	Pilot male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 1000 flights (200 flights)	Location Col de la Forclaz, Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Photon Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was soaring La Tournette close to the rock face and lost control of the paraglider following an asymmetric collapse in strong turbulence.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine

Date 27.06.2025 (F12880)	Pilot male Age: 60 Rating: P	Location Thurnham, Maidstone, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega X-Alps Launch Type: foot	Summary The paraglider suffered a collapse on approach to top land and the pilot impacted the ground heavily, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 25.06.2025 (F12879)	Pilot male Age: 73 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 4500 flights (25 flights)	Location Dunstable Down, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged groundspeed and downwind sink in thermic conditions during a slope landing attempt, resulting in a heavy landing on the harness impact pad.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 25.06.2025 (F12878)	Pilot male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 2000 flights (40 flights)	Location Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot's preflight check was interrupted, and they realised they were about to take off without their helmet. The pilot retrieved their helmet and then took off safely.	Injury Pilot: unhurt Passenger: unhurt

Date 20.06.2025 (F12875)	Pilot male Age: 29 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 28 flights (7 flights)	Location Rushup Edge, Derbyshire, UK Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Leaf lite Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the wind strength on take off and was dragged, the paraglider coming to rest over a barbed wire fence.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 12.06.2025 (F12872)	Pilot male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 404 flights (36 flights)	Location Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Arak Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot reported that the foot stirrup accelerator system on their Dudek Funky harness had twisted through the stirrup step. The pilot decided not to use the stirrup, which would have activated the trapped speed bar, and they immediately landed.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 10.06.2025 (F12890)	Pilot male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 2500 flights (82 flights)	Location Gemona, Gemona, IT Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mint Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot induced a spin on landing approach and impacted the ground hard, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, internal injuries, pelvis, hands, arms, shoulder, lumbar spine, thorax

Date 10.06.2025 (F12881)	Pilot female Age: 43 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 12 years 480 flights (130 flights)	Location Gemona, Gemona, IT Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: GIN GTO 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was flying in close proximity to the slope with other aircraft and encountered sinking air, resulting in an unplanned landing in a rocky area.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 02.06.2025 (F12876)	Pilot female Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years (3 flights)	Location Perransands, Perranporth, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Sprint 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was dragged across the sand dunes and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), cervical spine

Date 02.06.2025 (F12852)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paraglider Unknown model Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the landing approach, and landed in the landing field designated for sailplanes. No other aircraft were nearby at the time.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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