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Incident Reports (Informal)

All incident reports submitted via the old pan Europe incident reporting system, that had been approved for publication prior to 21 January 2026, can be found below.

Incident reports submitted via the new FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system after 21 January 2026 that have been approved for publication can be found on our FIDA Incident reports page

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

Incident reports for paraglider wings are displayed below in summary form.

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 12.04.2019 (E10339)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years	Location Pandy, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Recently qualified pilot flew into leeside turbulence causing his glider to collapse. Pilot landed in rocks. Pilot was not a member of the local club and the site was classed as members only.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Date 10.04.2019 (E9988)	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 6 flights (6 flights)	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Iona Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. This resulted in a student having to make a top landing but was then dragged.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 10.04.2019 (E9994)	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 8 years 1 hour 10 flights	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. Ground handling student was dragged spraining his ankle and bruising his ribs.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Date 02.04.2019 (E9895)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 33 years 940 hours (120 hours) (48 flights)	Location Col du Forclaz, Doussard, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 King Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot's glider displayed parachutal (deep stall) characteristics throughout an SIV course. On the final full stall of the third run of the second day the glider exited with two small cravats. As the pilot turned towards the landing/shore the glider went in to parachutal (deep stall). The glider on this occasion recovered quickly but with the subsequent height loss the pilot only had enough height to do a down wind landing approach with one cravat/big ear still in. To turn into wind would have risked a further stall. As the pilot was running off his excess speed he fell fracturing his arm.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Date 02.04.2019 (E10300)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 80 hours 127 flights (30 flights)	Location Lijar Levente, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink on landing approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine

Date 01.04.2019 (E9838)	Pilot Male Age: 20 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 3 hours (3 hours) 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Pandy, Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring the pilot turned away from the slope too late and collided with the slope.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Date 30.03.2019 (E9808)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 155 hours (3 hours) 358 flights (10 flights)	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Nevada Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off and noticed a brummell hook from his system had become detached and fallen inside his pod harness. Pilot continued to fly and landed safely. Pilot took off again and decided not to bother with the detached hook. He then noticed his foot place was out of position due to the hook not being attached.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 27.03.2019 (E9784)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 19 years 1600 hours (21 hours) (60 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Hungerford, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Triple Seven Queen 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed due to SOS on flight instrument. On taking off again the pilot did not do a pre-flight check and found his right hand brake handle was looped through the C lines. Pilot was able to steer using brake line above the handle until clear of the hill and was then able to untangle the handle.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 26.03.2019 (E9781)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: P Flying Experience: 11 years 400 hours	Location Lucena, Lucena, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric collapse shortly after take-off. Glider rotated and dived towards the slope before the pilot had time to react.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 26.03.2019 (E9904)	Pilot Female Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 5 hours (1 hour) 25 flights (4 flights)	Location Westbury Whitehorse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot got too close to the slope while avoiding another paraglider approaching from the opposite direction. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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