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All incident reports submitted via the old Euro system, and approved for publication before it was shut down, can be found below.

Once passed for publication, all new incident reports submitted via the FIDA pan Europe incident reporting system, can be found on our FIDA Incident Reports page

Summaries of incident reports are available for the following wing types:

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• Paraglider
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• Rigid Hang Glider
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Incident reports for all wing types are displayed below in summary form.

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There are 3356 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 19.02.2017 (E4254)	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 11 years	Location Bagworth Park Farm, Coalville, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Snake Launch Type: Powered Engine: Techno Fly / Air Conception, Octagon 190	Summary The pilot was seen to induce a spiral dive at about 1000ft above ground level, and maintained the spiral. At approx 300ft above ground level the pilot was seen to impact a second pilot and they rotated through 360 degrees before separating. The second landed safely and was uninjured (his wing was damaged). The first pilot continued his spiral to the ground and suffered fatal injuries..	Injury Pilot: Fatal
Date 18.02.2017 (E4233)	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 435 hours (30 hours) 1165 flights (40 flights)	Location Warren, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by low cloud while coastal soaring. Pilot drifted back in zero visibility and found himself over a road with only 15m clearance. Pilot landed safely on the verge.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.02.2017 (E4239)	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 169 hours (13 hours) 547 flights (22 flights)	Location The Warren, Folkestomne, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 8	Summary Pilot was coastal soaring with four other pilots when they were caught out by coastal fog. The pilot attempted to fly along the cliff tops to avoid a collision, but without visibility, became disoriented. Pilot came out of fog low over a main road but was able to land safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.02.2017 (E4243)	Pilot Male Age: 29 Flying Experience: 10 years 70 hours (55 hours) 175 flights (64 flights)	Location Warren, Folkenstone/Capel-le-Ferne, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Pure 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took of for coastal flight but was caught out by sea fog. Pilot lost visibility and drifted over the back but was able to land safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 18.02.2017 (E4262)	Pilot Male Age: 26 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 15 hours (10 hours) 20 flights (10 flights)	Location Milk Hill White Horse, Marlborough, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted a 360 degree turn in front of the hill but was too close. Pilot hit hillside.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.02.2017 (E4274)	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 178 hours (22 hours) 500 flights (76 flights)	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had to take collision avoidance action while ridge soaring with the ridge to his right. Pilot was forced to turn right and top land downwind to avoid colliding with the other pilot.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.02.2017 (E4235)	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 30 hours (5 hours) 60 flights (10 flights)	Location Whixhall, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spyder Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot started his engine an left it idling as it had a clutch, while he sorted out his wing. On returning to the engine the pilot held the frame with his right hand and picked up the throttle with his left. On picking up the throttle up he accidentally applied pressure, causing the motor to lurch forward unexpectedly. The pilots hand slipped off the frame and into the moving prop.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 07.02.2017 (E4218)	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 85 hours (11 hours) (13 flights)	Location Los Tanques, Roldanillo, Colombia Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skyman Cross Country Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot got low between two sets of power lines and opted to slope land. Pilot hit sink then suffered an asymmetric collapse landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 31.01.2017 (E4236)	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 37 years 3000 hours (50 hours) 2000 flights (40 flights)	Location Porterville, South Africa, South Africa Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Very Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered a frontal collapse with recovered with a 40-50% cravat. The pilot attempted to pump out the cravat but entered a spiral dive. Pilot deployed his emergency parachute but landed on a rock.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 29.01.2017 (E4209)	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P Flying Experience: 20 years 200 hours (50 hours)	Location Val d'isere, France Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Speedrider Wing: Gin Gliders Nano Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost too much height on approach as he had not taken into account the strength of the valley wind. Pilot landed 10m short of landing area and caught glider on a lamp post, narrowly avoiding buildings and cars.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 27 January 2026

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