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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 29.08.2009 (B4372) Formal Report	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Cheriton, UK Wind Strength: 41-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Powerplay Sting 160 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Walkerjet, Simon 210	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on approach in strong wind and turbulent conditions.	Injury Pilot: Fatal

Date 30.05.2009 (B4348)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Almenara, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Eagle Flight Genie Launch Type: Powered Engine: AV8ER, Observer Lite	Summary Whilst on a powered cross country flight the brummels connecting the speed system on the left side vibrated loose. The pilot was able to prevent the line from contacting the prop and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.05.2009 (B4344)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Lambourne, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Fusion 26 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Macro	Summary Pilot crashed on launch causing broken leg. Crash also caused prop to puncture fuel tank resulting in explosion and fire. Swift action of CFI with extinguishers prevented more serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib, burns to arms

Date 05.04.2009 (B4328)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Grove, Wantage, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction 29 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Airfer, Titan	Summary Pilot dislocated knee during initial takeoff run on paramotor launch. Previous unrelated dislocations believed to have weakened knee.	Injury Pilot: Dislocated knee

Date 08.03.2009 (B4312)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P	Location Cheng Su, China Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Launch Type: Powered Engine: prototype	Summary Shortly after take off the pilot noticed tip steering line had become loose and was lying on the cage netting. The prussik loop holding the tip steering line had become loose.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.02.2009 (B4311)	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P	Location Oldbury on the Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution 28 Launch Type: Powered Engine: PAP, ROS IQS 1400R	Summary Pilot suffered engine cut out at 200ft. Found no fault and took off again only for engine cut out at 20ft. Pilot landed on knees but ok. This time found that fuel primer bulb was contracting after 30 seconds causing engine to cut out.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 30.01.2009 (B4307)	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Las Candelas, Spain Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Mojo 2 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bailey, Top 80	Summary On attempting to warm up engine, pilot applied too much throttle (due to unfamiliar mechanism on hired motor) causing engine to rotate about pilots knee. Prop struck hand.	Injury Pilot: Severed index and middle fingers.

Date 01.08.2008 (B4279)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: FLPA	Location Roshe, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Paramania Revolution Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Macro	Summary At 400ft pilot parked brakes to adjust trimmers. He then hit turbulence causing the motor to move forward allowing the prop to touch the right brake. This wound on and the prop shattered damaging the cage. The brake then released allowing a safe landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.06.2008 (B4259)	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: FLPA	Location Northrepps, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Independence Speed Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Macro	Summary During flight pilot noticed maillon connecting spreader to tandem bar was open and deformed. Though protected by webbing fail safe, pilot and passenger decided to land immediately and did so without incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 18.05.2008 (B4253)	Pilot Male Age: 49	Location Unknown field, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered Engine: Parajet, Volution	Summary Pilot parked brakes on magnets while getting into seat. During this time one of the brakes became dislodged and was sucked into the prop. Pilot was able to land without incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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