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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 07.04.2025 (F12867)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 1200 flights (5 flights)	Location Mam Tor, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 7 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was dragged after making a top landing, and their emergency parachute deployed. Other pilots prevented the pilot from being dragged further. On subsequent inspection it was revealed that the parachute container closure pins were not held securely because the elastic closure loops had stretched.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 07.04.2025 (F12815)	Pilot male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 4 years	Location Pandy, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was landing on a sloping field, and collided with a fence. The paraglider wing wrapped around service cables overhead.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 29.03.2025 (F12812)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 343 flights (30 flights)	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Stellar RS Launch Type: foot	Summary After taking a thermal climb over the back of the hill, the pilot prepared to land on a local golf course as they were not able to penetrate into wind to reach the ridge. They encountered turbulent air on approach to land and landed heavily, sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 25.03.2025 (F12810)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 200 flights (25 flights)	Location East Hill White Cross, near Ottery St Mary, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot inflated their wing and was unexpectedly lifted up and backwards in a gust, landing in a tree. They were rescued by the emergency services.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 23.03.2025 (F12809)	Pilot male Age: 32 Rating: P 90 flights (10 flights)	Location Mam Tor NW, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Koyot 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot was performing a reverse launch. When turning to face in the direction of take-off, the paraglider lines caught on a camera mount on the helmet, preventing the pilot from making control inputs. The pilot lost control of the paraglider and was dragged.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 14.03.2025 (F12807)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 11 years 300 flights (55 flights)	Location Bo Peep, Southern, UK Wind Strength: 40-45 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot landed travelling backwards in the strong wind of a gust front. They sustained injury on landing.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 12.03.2025 (F12806)	Pilot male Age: 68 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 105 flights (5 flights)	Location Bratton Camp, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control), front influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Echo 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary A paraglider pilot reportedly contacted the other paraglider with their harness. The paraglider suffered a deflation and re-inflated quickly. The flight continued with no further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 09.03.2025 (F12805)	Pilot male Age: 74 Rating: P	Location High and Over, Alfriston / South Downs, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Explorer Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot experienced a large asymmetric collapse at low level behind the site's bowl ridge, and landed in trees.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, lumbar spine, cervical spine, thorax

Date 07.03.2025 (F12804)	Pilot male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location Rushup edge, Derbyshire, 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: Ozone Geo 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot landed heavily in gusty conditions and sustained injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 02.03.2025 (F12802)	Pilot male Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 2 years 18 flights (5 flights)	Location Talybont, Talybont, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z6 Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot misjudged their proximity to the hillside when turning towards the ridge on a downwind beat, and collided with the ground sustaining injury.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Last updated: 4 July 2026

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