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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 14.06.2006 (B4044)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Safir 2000 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large symmetric collapse at low level while on approach to slope landing. Caught out by rotor caused by wind being well off the slope.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr vertebra

Date 12.06.2006 (B4042)	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P	Location Chabre, Laragne, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bliss Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Comp pilot got low over trees looking for lift. Hit sink and landed in trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 11.06.2006 (B4041)	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location Plaine Joux, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse immediately after take off. Glider recovered asymmetrically and crashed into slope.	Injury Pilot: Fr l2 vertebra, internal injuries

Date 08.06.2006 (B4038)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location Chabre, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Plus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot entered flat spin attempting to turn tight and slow in weak lift. Threw emergency chute immediately and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 07.06.2006 (B4037)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student pulled leg muscle on landing.	Injury Pilot: Pulled quad muscle

Date 06.06.2006 (B4036)	Pilot Male Age: 50	Location Helvelyn, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Airprox with helicopter.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 05.06.2006 (B4034)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: Novice	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Custom Sail Trx Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unqualified pilot lost control of glider having encountered turbulence on approach to land.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia, fr vertebra

Date 05.06.2006 (B4033)	Pilot Female Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Fochriw, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot mishandled glider when ground handling prior to launch. Pilot pulled over and dragged into gully.	Injury Pilot: Fr rib, fr scapula

Date 04.06.2006 (B4032)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location St Vincent, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled wing during a tight 360. Glider spun and twisted risers so pilot threw emergency chute. Landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 03.06.2006 (B4031)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse at 50ft while on approach to top land in turbulent conditions. Glider recovered immediately but pilot hit ground as glider surged forward.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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