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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 69 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 28.01.2012 (F10575)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years 100 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 Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Came down under other pilot's parachute as other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 28.01.2012 (B4615)	Pilot Male Age: 35	Location Crieff, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction TST Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, 1400 ROS 125	Summary Due to poor lookout pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Both pilots came down under one parachute as the other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle

Date 28.01.2012 (B4614)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Crieff, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Cyclone	Summary Due to poor lookout pilot had mid-air collision with another paramotor pilot and became entangled. Both pilots came down under one parachute as the other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae

Date 10.01.2012 (F10602)	Pilot male Age: 31 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Hambrook, Chichester, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Fusion Launch Type: powered	Summary While practising low level manoeuvres the pilot applied too much brake (against the engine torque) and spun the glider.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 13.08.2011 (B4585)	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: AP	Location Watervliet, Belgium Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bulldog, Spirit	Summary Pilot misjudged wind gradient and did not leave sufficient time or altitude to execute an efficient flare to land.	Injury Pilot: Compression fracture of l1 vertebra.

Date 01.07.2011 (B4566)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location White Horse, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revo 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bulldog, Spirit Polini	Summary During test flight of students equipment, instructor witnessed riser to line connector open up. Pilot landed safely. The connector was found to be poor quality.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.07.2011 (B4565)	Pilot Unknown	Location Challow Hill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Nucleon Launch Type: Powered Engine: Polish, Vitorazzi Monster	Summary Pilot made hesitant launch under power and attempted to abort but was too low to get feet under body. Pilot fell forward and finger struck prop.	Injury Pilot: Lacerated fingers

Date 21.09.2010 (B4504)	Pilot Male Rating: Under training	Location Darley Moor, UK Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Roadster Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Micro	Summary Student attempted to take off with control line wrapped around riser. Powered off and aborted launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 08.12.2009 (B4403)	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P	Location Nuthurst, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Synthesis Launch Type: Powered Engine: MiniPlane	Summary On landing, clip on pilots glove (for holding gloves together) became caught on cage netting. Pilot could not release brake. Landed safely and cut glove clips off!	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 12.09.2009 (B4381)	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P	Location Lisdillon, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution Launch Type: Powered Engine: H&E, R120	Summary Whilst cruising under power at 1950ft the bolt holding the left hand hangpoint attachment arm sheared. The pilot was able, with extreme difficulty, to hang on the the riser and execute a forced landing with minimal damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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