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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 1248 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 21.09.2008 (B4297)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Talybont, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot spun glider attempting low level turn having run out of landing options.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 20.09.2008 (B4296)	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: CP	Location Loose Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Summit 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot encountered severe sink in close proximity to another (lower) glider. In sinking, passed very close to other glider which subsequently collapsed and landed in a tree causing injury to the other pilot.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 20.09.2008 (B4295)	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Loose Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered collapse at low level and landed in tree having come very close to another pilot who had hit severe sink.	Injury Pilot: Facial lacerations, injured knee, neck pain.

Date 16.09.2008 (B4293)	Pilot Male Age: 52	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During repack, emergency parachute found to be damp with mould on inner bag. Had been stored under leaking sink for 6 months.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 15.09.2008 (B4292)	Pilot Female Age: 21 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Coral Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student was practising forward inflations when glider went off line. Student pulled muscle in leg.	Injury Pilot: Muscle pull in leg

Date 14.09.2008 (B4291)	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: Novice	Location High and Over, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima II Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to flare on landing and landed awkwardly.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib and dislocated.

Date 13.09.2008 (B4290)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Gully, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student went off line during low hop and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle

Date 13.09.2008 (B4289)	Pilot Female Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Liddington, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot landed crosswind and caught foot under harness.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula

Date 06.09.2008 (B4288)	Pilot Female Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Ager, Spain	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot miss-timed damping dive on exit of nose down spiral. Glider suffered 80-90% asymmetric which turned into locked in spiral. Pilot eventually recovered but on landing noticed chest strap had been ripped out of light weight harness.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 30.08.2008 (B4287)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Tan Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Muse II Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was lifted prematurely from hill during reverse launch and went off with twisted risers. Landed heavily going sidewards.	Injury Pilot: Twisted knee

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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