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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 paraglider wings 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 84 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports

Date 18.06.2016 (F11192)	Pilot male Age: 42 Flying Experience: 14 years	Location near Brighton, GB Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider at low level and impacted heavily sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, feet, legs

Date 18.09.2015 (F11126)	Pilot male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years	Location Lake District, GB Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), light turbulence (no pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot lost control of paraglider while in close proximity to fellside, while on cross country flight.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), head injuries, internal injuries, thorax

Date 31.07.2015 (F11069)	Pilot male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Derbyshire, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: strong (5m/s), strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Carrera Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident)

Date 22.05.2013 (F10730)	Pilot male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 400 flights	Location Cornwall, GB Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Little Cloud Spiruline 3 Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot was "too lazy" to walk up and so decided to top land. Was caught out by rotor and glider sustained a full frontal collapse. Pilot impacted hard from 10m.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), lumbar spine

Date 20.05.2013 (F10723)	Pilot male Age: 65 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 16 years	Location Annecy, FR Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s), moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot took off in thermic and turbulent conditions. Glider suffered an asymmetric collapse and the pilot did not counter the dive. Glider suffered second asymmetric collapse and again pilot did not counter the dive. Pilot crashed heavily into trees.	Injury Pilot: fatal (death within 30 days after the accident), feet, legs

Date 19.05.2013 (F10725)	Pilot male Rating: CP	Location North Yorkshire, GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Oasis Launch Type: foot	Summary Incident not witnessed. Pilot called for help having turned into the hill approx 20m from the top of the hill.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 19.05.2013 (F10734)	Pilot male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 17 years 76 flights	Location , GB Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: moderate (3m/s)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Oasis Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot became too close to the hill while scratching in weak lift. Pilot caught foot on rock.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 19.05.2013 (F10736)	Pilot male Age: 53 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 41 years	Location Derbyshire, GB Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control), leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Peak 2 Launch Type: foot	Summary While thermalling Pilot was caught out by rotor from rounded knoll some 150m in front. Glider stalled in rotor and fell vertically from 15m. Pilot landed heavily	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), pelvis

Date 17.05.2013 (F10724)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years	Location Meon Valley, GB Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, moderate turbulence (occasional pilot action required to maintain control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land due to increase in wind strength and shift in wind direction. Pilot caught out by rotor causing wing to slew sideways on approach. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: seriously injured (more tan 48h in hospital, fractures (except for finger, nose, toe), haermorrhage, ligament rupture), feet, legs

Date 17.05.2013 (F10739)	Pilot male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 18 years 250 flights	Location Wetherdown, GB Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions:, strong turbulence (constant pilot action required to avoid loss of control)	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Kiss Launch Type: foot	Summary Pilot attempted to land in strong wind in an area known to be turbulent when the wind was strong. Glider stalled at approx 3-5m and pilot landed heavily.	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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