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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 69 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 26.11.2025 (F12985)	Pilot male Age: 57 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 1 year	Location Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Orca 5 Launch Type: powered	Summary A student undertaking a training flight on a paramotor trike at a non BHPA flying school became entangled in the upper branches of trees on the airfield periphery, and was attended to by the emergency services.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 17.07.2025 (F12895)	Pilot male Age: 62 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 900 flights (60 flights)	Location Redcar, Redcar, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spyder Launch Type: foot	Summary The paramotor pilot reported being overtaken on their left-hand side by a light aircraft flying at the same altitude, in a banking left-land turn.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 31.03.2025 (F12814)	Pilot male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 455 flights	Location Rufforth, York, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Freeride 2 Launch Type: powered	Summary The pilot let go of the right control handle of their paraglider during climb-out under power, rather than stowing it on its keeper. The handle was drawn into the propeller, causing damage to the propeller, the control handle and control lines. The pilot was able to land without further incident.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 01.03.2025 (F12799)	Pilot male Rating: P	Location Wingland Airfield, Spalding, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: BGD Luna Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot lost control of the wing on launch. They aborted the launch and turned, the engine still running under power. The pilot fell and the propeller made contact with their hand causing injury and damage to the paramotor netting and cage.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder

Date 09.08.2022 (F12369)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: Unqualified	Location New Church Farm, Tong, Bradford, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: BGD Luna 2	Summary The incident occurred when the pilot's paraglider was induced into a turn by the ingestion of the left-hand control line into the turning propeller. The turn developed into a spiral dive, from which the pilot was unable to recover before impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 07.10.2018 (F11679)	Pilot male Age: 55	Location Bishop Norton, Market Rasen, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot hit a tree, following landing attempt.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 31.08.2018 (F11647)	Pilot male Age: 25 Rating: unknown Flying Experience: 9 years	Location East Knoyle, East Knoyle, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania GTX Launch Type: powered	Summary Glider seen going from stable flight into wing-over maneuver which progressed into deep spiral dive, which pilot was unable to recover. Rapid loss of height resulting in impact to ground and adjacent power lines.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 07.05.2018 (F11562)	Pilot male Age: 53	Location Northborough, Cambridgeshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania GTX Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 03.12.2017 (F11483)	Pilot male Flying Experience: 22 years	Location Pilling, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco NRG Pro Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while flying at low altitude and crashed into ploughed field.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries

Date 19.02.2017 (F11291)	Pilot male Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Bagworth Park Farm, Coalville, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Snake Launch Type: powered	Summary The pilot was seen to induce a spiral dive at about 1000ft above ground level, and maintained the spiral. At approx 300ft above ground level the pilot was seen to impact a second pilot and they rotated through 360 degrees before separating. The second landed safely and was uninjured (his wing was damaged). The first pilot continued his spiral to the ground and suffered fatal injuries..	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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