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Incident Reports (Informal)

All incident reports submitted via the new FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system after 21 January 2026 that have been approved for publication can be found below. This page will also slowly include a growing list of older incident report summaries.

Unfortunately, whilst all our old incident reports were successfully imported into the FIDA database by our German colleagues, they failed to include the status of the "publish" field used to determine if it can be made available on our website. As a result around 1,400 old reports now have to be reviewed and cross checked before they can appear here. This is a painfully slow process, and is likely to take some time to complete.

In the meantime a full list of all incident reports submitted via the old Euro system and passed for publication is available on our Incident reports Archive page

Incident reports are available in summary form for the following wing types:

Incident reports for all wing types are displayed below in summary form.

The BHPA incident reports database is fully searchable. To refine your search you can specify a particular wing type and select "or" or "and". For example, if you want to search for paraglider incidents at Hay Bluff, for best search results select paraglider from the drop down list and the "and" option.

If you want to search by incident date, please enter the day, month and year numerically as dd-mm-yyyy (eg. 03-12-2019).

If known, total hours and total flights flown are displayed below together with hours and flights flown in the past six months, the latter being displayed in brackets.

There are 117 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 01.02.2012 (F10577)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Lanzarote, ES Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing hang glider Wing: Avian Amour Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot failed to make landing area and was caught in lee of sandbank. Glider dropped wing and pilot did not let go of 'A' frame.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 01.02.2012 (F10593)	Pilot male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years 17 flights	Location Taunton, GB	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4	Summary During a deployment and repack session the pilot found his parachute would not deploy. It was found to be incorrectly packed. It was then repacked correctly.	Injury Pilot: unhurt

Date 28.01.2012 (F10575)	Pilot male Age: 42 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years 100 flights	Location Scotland, GB 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 (F10576)	Pilot male Age: 35 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 18 years 60 flights	Location Scotland, GB Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Reaction TST Launch Type: powered	Summary Pilot was involved in a mid-air collision with another paramotor and became entangled. Pilot successfully deployed parachute and both pilots came down under the one chute as other failed to deploy.	Injury Pilot: minor injuries, feet, legs

Date 10.01.2012 (F10602)	Pilot male Age: 31 Rating: Unqualified Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Chichester, GB 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 09.01.2012 (F10573)	Pilot male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years 730 flights	Location Scotland, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: unknown, unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: foot	Summary The pilot built a wall with his paraglider in preparation to launch. As he launched the glider a gust of wind lifted him off his feet and he fell heavily on his shoulder.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Date 08.01.2012 (F10574)	Pilot male Age: 41 11 flights	Location Brighton, GB Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: calm (1 m/s), not turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: foot	Summary Student did not flare on landing and stayed in seated position. Caught foot under harness seat.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Last updated: 18 May 2026

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