British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association

Incident Reports (Informal)

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:

• All Wing Types
• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
• Speedrider
• Speedflyer/Miniwing
• Powered PG
• Powered HG
• Other

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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 3234 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 19.10.2023	Pilot Female Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 4 years 47 hours (5 hours) 370 flights (43 flights)	Location Lift Sopot, Sopot, Bulgaria Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Rimo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink on final approach and was unable to get their legs down before catching a hump on the ground with the underside of their harness.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thoracic Spine
Date 17.10.2023	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Hill of Noth, Rhynie, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off with one leg loop undone. Pilot immediately felt the issue but was able to stay in the harness. Pilot flew away from the hill into open air and was able get the buckle made up. The harness has one fixed leg loop and the other is a pass through buckle.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.10.2023	Pilot Unknown	Location North Luffenham, Rutland, UK	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary The North Luffenham winch Tow site was active and NOTAM H7274/23 issued for tow launch activity up to 2000ft. At 14.22 helicopter G-OCFD flew directly over the tow site 50 seconds after the tow line had been active.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.10.2023	Pilot Male	Location Combe Gibbet, Ink Pen, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed safely, but released the brakes too early. A gust of wind inflated the paraglider which then dragged the pilot over a fence behind the top landing area.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P Flying Experience: 30 years 2500 hours (40 hours) (34 flights)	Location Frocester, Stroud, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Immediately after launching Pilot noticed the outside B line had snapped approx 1m up from the B riser. Pilot was able to land safely using weight shift. Pilot does not not know how line snap occurred.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Devils dyke, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Single Skin	Summary Pilot was observed attempting a 360 degree turn close to the hill. Glider then started to spin but recovered by the pilot. Subsequent dive induced hard downwind landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 13.10.2023	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Kona 2	Summary Paramotor wing was sent for its first service just after 2 years and 35 flying hours. The porosity measured on the top surface leading edge Dominico 30D material was much lower the expected with readings of 25, 20 and 13 seconds when measuring the porosity using a JDC Porosimeter. The Porsher EasyFly material used for the bottom surface was also measured and received excellent readings over 275 seconds.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 3 years 31 hours	Location Billing, Bir Billing, India	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary While on a flight Pilot discovered their magnetic compass was not operating correctly. Magnets in the Advance Cockpit Carry were preventing the compass from working.	Injury Unknown
Date 08.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 3 years 200 hours (65 hours)	Location Parlick, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary There were 10 pilots on takeoff and 2 had already flown very briefly. There was nothing unusual about the takeoff but within 1 minute it became clear that there was excessive turbulence. Pilot decided to go to the landing field at the bottom of the hill but suffered a full frontal collapse which resulted in a spiral dive into the side of the hill	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Cervical Spine
Date 08.10.2023	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1 year 5 hours (5 hours) 30 flights (30 flights)	Location Northern Skies HQ, Goole, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot on climb out was informed via Safe Sky about traffic. Pilot spotted Air ambulance helicopter and started immediate decent and landing. The helicopter passed within 300 M Laterally and 1-200 ft Vertically (as judged from the ground) No Issues. Airprox Filed.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 2 December 2024

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