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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 74 published incident report summaries for Powered PGs

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 15.05.2004 (B3786)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: SPHG	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Mcdaddy Launch Type: Powered Engine: Fly, p130	Summary At 50m when pilot and passenger were getting into their seats, the risers became twisted resulting in the pilot losing control. They crashed heavily with the passenger sustaining severe injuries.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, fr collar bone

Date 16.03.2003 (B3594)	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Selston, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Powered Engine: Rad, mxl	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 07.10.2002 (B3563)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Ireland Field, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Ventura Launch Type: Powered Engine: VITTORAZI, 100CC	Summary Pilot started power unit at full revs, attmpted to stabilise unit by holding cage, hand slipped through netting and contacted propellor.	Injury Pilot: Thumb & first finger of right hand tips ripped by propeller

Date 28.07.2002 (B3498)	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Private Land, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Gradient Onyx Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot started engine of paramotor whilst supporting the frame. The canopy remained packed away. The engine revs were high pushing the unit forward. The pilot reacted by pushing out with his left hand which contacted the prop causing injury.	Injury Pilot: Left hand index finger 50% of tip severed, fingers 2 & 3 removed amputated to first joint. little finger 3mm of tip removed

Date 26.07.2002 (B3496)	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Milton Keynes, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertibrae and internal injuries

Date 26.03.2002 (B3395)	Pilot Unknown	Location Ashover, Derbyshire, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary 2 PPGs reported flying low over Ashover , Derbyshire. Several captive birds of prey were spooked resulting in one being injured and subsequently put down.	Injury Unknown

Date 29.12.2001 (B3376)	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Stantor, Torquay, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Allegra Launch Type: Powered Engine: Revoloution	Summary During xc flight paramotr unit suffered failure - no details.	Injury Unknown

Date 15.09.2001 (B3341)	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot failed to execute an emergency canopy collapse following an aborted forward launch. Part of the canopy contacted the motor causing damage to the lines and prop.	Injury Unknown

Date 27.08.2001 (B3327)	Pilot Unknown	Location Studland Peninsula, Dorset., UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary PPG spotted flying too low over built up area.	Injury Unknown

Date 28.07.2001 (B3308)	Pilot Male	Location At Home, Cholsey., UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered Engine: Revoloution, Classic	Summary During maintainence paramotor fell towards pilot whiuls engine was running, the pilot put ou his hand to protect his head and suffered injuies to his hand and arm.	Injury Pilot: Lacerated arm and hand.

Last updated: 23 October 2026

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