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Incident Date: November 3, 2024
Location: Smoketown, Pennsylvania
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Close Call – Almost Mid Air Collision with a Cessna

Incident Date: October 25, 2024
Location: Willard, Utah
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Fatal injury sustained when pilot flew into lee side rotor near high mountain peak.

Incident Date: September 10, 2024
Location: Jackson, Michigan
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Jeremy crashed his Paramotor after trying to unpack a toy parachute guy at low altitude (~30ft).

Incident Date: September 7, 2024
Location: Frederick, Colorado
PPG Type: Wheel Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot fatality performing low-altitude acrobatics

Incident Date: June 27, 2024
Location: Isabella, pr, Puerto Rico
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Crash, cause unknown

Incident Date: June 27, 2024
Location: Garden Ridge, Texas
PPG Type: Wheel Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Hard landing results in broken ankle

Incident Date: June 16, 2024
Location: San Martin, California
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Brake toggle go through the net and hit the prop

Incident Date: June 16, 2024
Location: Hartsville, South Carolina
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Landing crash in thermal conditions

Incident Date: June 9, 2024
Location: Palatka, Florida
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Downdraft caused pilot to hit ground

Incident Date: June 4, 2024
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Details have not yet been determined

Incident Date: June 3, 2024
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
(incident details not available at this time)

Incident Date: June 3, 2024
Location: Georgetown, Kentucky
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot dies hitting ground

Incident Date: June 1, 2024
Location: Marrietta, South Carolina
PPG Type: Wheel Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Good weather at safe altitude suddenly changed to a dive to the ground without reponse on the radio

Incident Date: April 10, 2024
Location: Romeo, Michigan
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pull start cord got caught in belt during flight, resulted in loss of thrust.

Incident Date: March 12, 2024
Location: ceiba, Puerto Rico
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
pilot lands hard and ends up in the water

Incident Date: March 5, 2024
Location: San Antonio, Texas
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot stalled the wing

Incident Date: November 7, 2023
Location: Forsyth, Illinois
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
30MPH wind Gust causes wing to collapse at 200 feet – causing PPG pilot to impact ground

Incident Date: November 5, 2023
Location: Largrange, Kentucky
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Wind trouble in landing with motor not running at full power due to temp change and tuning issues. Flew over horses while trying to land safely

Incident Date: October 27, 2023
Location: Beebe, Arkansas
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Motor out. Landed in a tree

Incident Date: October 7, 2023
Location: Barceloneta, Puerto Rico
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot sustains severe injuries while ground-starting.

Incident Date: September 14, 2023
Location: Buckley Washington, Washington
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
The paramotor operator circled and dived his paraglider during White River High School football game in Buckley WA to within feet of the ground and 100 ft or less to a grand stand full of spectators.

Incident Date: June 25, 2023
Location: Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Wrapped Tip Steer pushed Pilot toward Trees, Vehicles

Incident Date: May 29, 2023
Location: Manhattan, Kansas
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Fall during kiting resulting in dislocated pinky.

Incident Date: April 14, 2023
Location: Port Charlotte/ Cape haze preserve, Florida
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
One trim released one not, 250 agl

Incident Date: February 17, 2023
Location: Maricopa county, Arizona
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Midair collision

Incident Date: December 10, 2022
Location: GREELEY, Colorado
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Tumbleweed in brakes, close call

Incident Date: November 21, 2022
Location: Lancaster, South Carolina
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
A bit of a close call with a small helicopter near sunset.

Incident Date: October 9, 2022
Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot sustains serious arm injury while ground starting

Incident Date: October 2, 2022
Location: Henderson, Nevada
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Pilot died on impact

Incident Date: September 3, 2022
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
PPG Type: Foot Launch – Single Occupant

Brief description of the incident:
Un forecast gust front resulted in wing collapse and pilot fatality.

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