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 3235 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 06.10.2007	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P	Location Blease Fell, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Oasis Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot overshot landing area and skimmed across parked car before landing causing minor damage to the car.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.10.2007	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: Novice	Location Merthyr, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 4 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student made too sharp a turn immediately after take off and turned back into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 21.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 7 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered frontal collapse due to turbulent thermic conditions. Glider recovered with cravat then entered spiral. Pilot deployed emergency chute bruising foot on landing.	Injury Pilot: Bruised foot
Date 19.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: AP	Location St Andre, France Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot experienced switching wind conditions on approach to land causing him to alter approach direction. Wind changed again and pilot span glider attempting to get back into wind.	Injury Pilot: Dislo elbow, fr elbow, detached ligaments and fr vertebra.
Date 15.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: Novice	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric while on top to bottom. Turned heavily into hill.	Injury Pilot: 5 fr vertebrae
Date 15.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP	Location Chabre Laragne, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary While thermalling, pilot entered spiral and did not recover before impact.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 12.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Plan Fait Annecy, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Icaro Incanto Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot had asymmetric collapse while thermalling. Over correction lead to spin and spiral. pilot deployed emergency chute and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: Novice	Location Ballygown Arran, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Joker Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student fell over after glider inflated asymmetrically .	Injury Pilot: Pulled shoulder muscle
Date 11.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 70 Rating: P	Location Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On launch, wing came up unevenly resulting in the pilot being dragged.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 09.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: Novice	Location Caburn, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Pegas Arcus 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student struggled to ground glider after good flight and landing. Was then pulled over.	Injury Pilot: Torn muscle

Last updated: 12 December 2024

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