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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:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

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).

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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 23.10.2016 (F11318)	Pilot male Age: 37	Location Pilling, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Jojo Wings Instinct Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paramotor at low altitude.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)
Date 22.03.2016 (F11196)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years	Location Selsey, Chichester, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron xx Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered a collapse at low level.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 07.07.2015 (F11120)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: Pilot (Power)	Location Siurana Alt Emporda 17469, Siurana/Girona, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Slalom Launch Type: foot	Summary A paramotor pilot was critically injured upon impact with the ground, and died from his injuries. There were no witnesses to the flight or the impact.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), internal injuries
Date 16.05.2013 (F10727)	Pilot male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years	Location Puerto Serrano, Algonodales, ES Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: powered	Summary Student made a good powered launch but had applied too much brake. Student was told to ease off the brakes a little but released them fully while letting off the throttle. Glider dived towards the ground and student impacted hard from 2m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 10.06.2012 (F10632)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years	Location Kempsey, Worcestershire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Nucleon Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot launched glider unaware of an asymmetric collapse. Glider veered towards another glider still on the ground and the engine cages collided. Pilot landed with damage to both power units.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 25.05.2012 (F10634)	Pilot male Age: 54 4 flights	Location Batchlane Farm, Somerset, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot started motor but it went to full revs knocking him over. Pilot was struck by prop.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder
Date 16.04.2012 (F10605)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 100 flights	Location Wigginton, 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: Paramania Revolution Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot launched and powered up to 5m when engine cut out. Pilot landed heavily. Air in fuel suspected.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 27.02.2012 (F10579)	Pilot male Age: 34 Rating: Unqualified 6 flights	Location Challow Hill Farm, Oxfordshire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot did not respond properly to radio commands and came close to landing on parked cars. Student became entangled with a wing laid out in the take off area but managed to land safely.	Injury Pilot: unhurt
Date 24.02.2012 (F10580)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years	Location Darley Moor, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: powered	Summary Student applied too much throttle while practising starting the engine. Engine fell over backwards.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, hands, arms, shoulder
Date 28.01.2012 (F10576)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 18 years 60 flights	Location Crieff, Scotland, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction TST Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot was involved in a mid-air collision with another paramotor and became entangled. Pilot successfully deployed parachute and both pilots came down under the one chute as other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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