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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 74 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
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)
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 01.11.2015 (F11664)	Pilot male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 300 flights (70 flights)	Location Private field, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Hadron XX Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot came in to land in nil wind and came in on a fast approach and caught foot on a grass clump, which twisted his leg breaking it just above the boot. Pilot drove himself to hospital. Leg in plaster for 6 weeks.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs
Date 19.09.2015 (F11112)	Pilot male Age: 58 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 26 years (20 flights)	Location Marston Airfield, marston Trussel, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: dudek snake (not xx) Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level while attempting a high banked turn during slalom practice. During the manoeuvre the pilot noticed the left brake handle had become detached from the brake lines. The pilot was unable to regain control and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, hands, arms, shoulder, feet, legs, lumbar spine
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

Last updated: 22 October 2026

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