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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 24.04.2013 (F10716)	Pilot male Age: 75 Rating: CP	Location Lewes, GB Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in strengthening winds and was blown along a fence line before being lifted by a gust and slammed to the ground from 3-5m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), head injuries, thorax

Date 23.04.2013 (F10759)	Pilot male Age: 75 Rating: P Flying Experience: 18 years 300 flights	Location Lewes, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Sprint Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off down hill as too strong on top. Pilot was then blown back over the top and lost control of his glider. Pilot crashed and was immediately lifted off by glider before crashing again.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), internal injuries, cervical spine, thorax

Date 22.04.2013 (F10720)	Pilot female Age: 55	Location Algonodales, ES Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila Launch Type: foot	Summary Student encountered lift on approach and attempted to tighten turn in order to land in landing field rather than use alternative field. Student allied too much brake and glider began to spin. On recovery student was swung into the ground.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 20.04.2013 (F10750)	Pilot male Age: 51 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 1500 flights	Location Wales, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered 50% asymmetric collapse immediately after take off. Glider rotated 180 degrees and pilot struck hillside from 10-12m	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 20.04.2013 (F10713)	Pilot male Age: 54 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Hampshire, GB Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off into turbulent and thermic conditions. Glider suffered a large asymmetric collapse at low level and the pilot was pendulumed into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis, lumbar spine, cervical spine, thorax

Date 20.04.2013 (F10715)	Pilot male Rating: P	Location Llantysilio, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot crashed on hillside. Crash was not witnessed.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs, lumbar spine

Date 20.04.2013 (F10732)	Pilot female Age: 60 41 flights	Location Derbyshire, GB Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 4 Launch Type: winch/vehicle tow	Summary Student stumbled on launch damaging ankle.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 31.03.2013 (F10773)	Pilot female Age: 42 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 30 years	Location Torello, ES Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot left it too late to make official landing field with limited choices to land elsewhere. Pilot attempted to land on terrace but missed and hit bank still seated.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 28.03.2013 (F10708)	Pilot male Age: 39	Location Dorset, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Bolero 4 Launch Type: foot	Summary Student inflated wing well but didn't prevent it overshooting. Canopy suffered 50% asymmetric collapse then reinflated and pulled student sideways across the hill just off the ground. Student landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 14.03.2013 (F10691)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 34 years	Location Wales, GB Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Having been caught out by strengthening winds the pilot landed and tried to deflate the glider using the B risers. Before the glider was collapsed the pilot fell backwards and was dragged for 25m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), hands, arms, shoulder

Last updated: 18 May 2026

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