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British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association

British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association

Incident Reports - Informal Investigations

Incident reports received by the BHPA are available in summary form on this page. If you're looking for reports of formal investigations undertaken in the case of a serious incident, please visit our Incident Reports (formal investigations) 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.

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If available, total hours flown and hours flown in the previous six months are included below, with the latter displayed in brackets.

There are 3134 entries for all wing types

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Date Pilot Location Wing Type Summary Injury
22.03.2009 Male

Age:
25

Rating:
P



Combe Gibbet,
UK

Wind Strength:
28-34 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic
Paraglider

Wing:
Swing
Stratus 7 GS

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot suffered large asymmetric collapse at low level on windy, turbulent day. Collapse turned into cascade and pilot deployed emergency chute. Chute opened just prior to impact and absorbed some of the impact energy.

Bruised pelvis
22.03.2009 Male

Age:
43

Rating:
P



Batcombe,
UK

Wind Strength:
28-34 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic
Paraglider

Wing:
Airwave
Cobra M

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while on approach to top land in windy and turbulent conditions. Glider entered spiral and pilot impacted heavily.

Fr l3 and t12 vertebrae
21.03.2009 Male

Age:
47

Rating:
P



White Horse,
UK

Wind Strength:
12-19 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady
Paraglider

Wing:
Ozone
Buzz

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
While ridge soaring pilot applied speed bar when the upper pulley on riser failed rendering speed bar inoperable.

None
21.03.2009 Male

Age:
50

Rating:
P



Liddington,
UK

Wind Strength:
20-27 km/h

Conditions:
Thermic
Paraglider

Wing:
Advance
Sigma

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level while facing away from the hill. Glider turned 180 degrees during recovery and pilot impacted hill.

Sprained ankle
19.03.2009 Male

Age:
57

Rating:
P



Malvern,
UK

Wind Strength:
28-34 km/h

Conditions:
Variable
Paraglider

Wing:
Nova
Mamboo L

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot twisted ankle while turning during reverse launch.

Bruised ankle
19.03.2009 Male

Age:
62

Rating:
CP



Spain Under investigation.

Fatal.
16.03.2009 Male

Age:
45

Rating:
CP



Milk Hill,
UK

Wind Strength:
12-19 km/h

Conditions:
Variable
Paraglider

Wing:
Gradient


Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot suffered mid-air collision with another paraglider causing glider to collapse and fall to ground.

Tissue damage to back
16.03.2009 Male

Age:
38

Rating:
Under training



Milk Hill,
UK

Wind Strength:
12-19 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady
Paraglider

Wing:
Gin
Bolero

Launch Type:
Foot (Reverse)
Pilot suffered mid-air collision with another paraglider resulting in both falling to the ground.

Tissue damage to back
13.03.2009 Male

Age:
53

Rating:
P



Perranporth,
UK

Wind Strength:
28-34 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady
Flexwing Hang Glider

Wing:
Wills Wing
Talon 150

Launch Type:
Foot (Forward)
On finals pilot decided to go round but then quickly lost height resulting in the glider drifting off-line and stalling into rigging gliders.

None
08.03.2009 Male

Age:
39

Rating:
P



Cheng Su,
China

Wind Strength:
0-11 km/h

Conditions:
Smooth/Steady
Powered PG

Wing:
Paramania


Launch Type:
Powered

Engine:
prototype
Shortly after take off the pilot noticed tip steering line had become loose and was lying on the cage netting. The prussik loop holding the tip steering line had become loose.

None
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Last updated: 29 March 2024

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