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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 28.08.2005 (B3966)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Mt Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot crashed into hillside having misjudged proximity to hill when avoiding another glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra l1

Date 28.08.2005 (B3967)	Pilot Female Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Ringstead, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew into turbulence having failed to notice wind had veered.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis, fr femur, fr arm

Date 27.08.2005 (B3963) Formal Report	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric colapse at low level and spiralled into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.

Date 21.08.2005 (B3962)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: AP	Location Long Mynd, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Trango 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered spin flying too slowly when thermalling and crashed into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist

Date 20.08.2005 (B3960)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: Novice	Location Catacol, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary 2 students collided but flew on and landed safely. Minor damage to one of the gliders.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 20.08.2005 (B3961)	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P	Location Combe Gibbit, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Astral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed in trees having encountered sink while trying to get back to ridge.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 18.08.2005 (B3958)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P	Location Captain Cook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted to slope land having failed to find thermal on light wind day. Pilot landed in bracken and struck foot on hidden boulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr heal, pelvis, sacrum

Date 18.08.2005 (B3959)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Babadag, Turkey Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zoom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric (on hill side) while close to top of hill. Recovered glider but could not avoid impact with hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr coccyx fr shoulder

Date 16.08.2005 (B3957)	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 07.08.2005 (B3954)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Tremaen, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed then took off again having waited for thermic cycle to come through. Unfortunately he did not pre-flight check and took off with twisted risers resulting in a spin and heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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