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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 1248 published incident report summaries for Paragliders

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 18.04.2004 (B3774)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Mayo Bridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot spun glider then suffered 2 asymmetric collapses before hitting hill.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr pelvis

Date 17.04.2004 (B3773)	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Argon Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Weak link broke at 80ft in gusty conditions and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 30.03.2004 (B3770)	Pilot Female Age: 34 Rating: Novice	Location Plain Joux, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Lift Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student overcompensated asymmetric at 30m and spun into building.	Injury Pilot: Fr heal and compressed vertebra

Date 29.03.2004 (B3767)	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr Common, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Ii Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student lifted legs before glider properly flying. Caught outstretched leg on rock.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle

Date 29.03.2004 (B3768)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Currium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student got too close to hill while attempting to soar and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Bruised elbow

Date 29.03.2004 (B3769)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: Novice	Location Fasoula, Cyprus Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bolero Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student hit foot on rock after being pulled to one side on launch.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle

Date 27.03.2004 (B3766)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Ii Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary At approx 20m glider stalled on tow. Pilot pendulumed into ground but was OK but for some bruising. Glider suspected.	Injury Pilot: Bruising

Date 06.03.2004 (B3765)	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Telegraph, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z-One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flew too far back for top landing approach and was caught in rotor.	Injury Pilot: Fr shoulder

Date 04.03.2004 (B3763)	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Pulsar Small Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot induced an accelerated symmetric collapse on an siv course. Glider entered stall and needed significant pilot input to recover. DHV 1/2 glider.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 04.03.2004 (B3764)	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P	Location France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot induced accelerated symmetric collapse on siv course. Glider entered stall and was difficult to recover.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 18 August 2026

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