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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 06.12.2005 (B3993)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: CP	Location Mala, Lanzarote, Spain Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and landed on parked hang glider.	Injury Pilot: Bruised hip, grazed hand

Date 23.11.2005 (B3992)	Pilot Male Age: 22 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student landed awkwardly and sprained ankle.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle

Date 22.11.2005 (B3991)	Pilot Female Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on approach at approx. 50ft due to rotor from building. Glider then entered rapid spiral into ground.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertabra

Date 20.11.2005 (B3990)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Wether Fell, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Makalu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caught out by wave and suffered asymmetric collapse. Turned 180 degrees in recovery and crashed into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib

Date 31.10.2005 (B3988)	Pilot Female Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Gelli Gaer, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student lost control of glider while ground handling and was pulled over.	Injury Pilot: Grazed knees

Date 20.10.2005 (B3987)	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Ontur, Spain Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Canopy developed cravat on launch and pilot pendulumed through having miscontrolled recovery.	Injury Pilot: Fr heel

Date 14.10.2005 (B3985)	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location St Marc Douilly, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered front collapse due to severe turbulence when coming in for top landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra, ribs and foot

Date 12.10.2005 (B3984)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location La Chens, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to land due to rain (glider wet). Put big ears in to land and on releasing ears glider entered deep stall.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 09.10.2005 (B3983)	Pilot Male Age: 26 Rating: P	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flying in strong wind caught out when wind strength increased forcing tree landing.	Injury Pilot: Cut face

Date 06.10.2005 (B3982)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student flared late and had legs out straight.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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