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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 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.

Date 20.05.2001 (B3276)	Pilot Unknown	Location Lowca, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Apco Futura Launch Type: Powered Engine: 210 cc	Summary Pilot appeared to stall paramotor following launch.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts and grazes.

Date 11.02.2001 (B3244)	Pilot Male Age: 42	Location Sutra Beach, Malaysia Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot doing fly-by in front of camera turned sharply into the path of another paramotor. Second paramotor was forced to take evasive action which resulted in his canopies wing touching the sea causing a water landing.	Injury Pilot: No injuries pilot 1 no injuries pilot 2

Date 15.01.2001 (B3235)	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Cross Country, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: FreeX Mission Launch Type: Powered Engine: RAD, Airheart XL100	Summary Paramotor pilot landing out after a XC flight. During his landing approach the pilot attempted a 360 degree turn during which the wing stalled and entered a spin. The pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Sprained right hand, bruising.

Date 28.12.2000 (B3228)	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Buckingham Palace, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Paramotor pilot (Non BHPA member) landed his aircraft in the grounds of Buck Palace.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 3 July 2026

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A number of incident analysis reports are also available in the safety section of main portal, bhpa.co.uk. These are compiled from the individual incident reports submitted during the course of each year.

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