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 3287 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: Novice	Location St Vincent, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX X1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student suffered asymmetric while running for take off. Pilot was lifted by momentum and turned into hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fr hip, fr shoulder
Date 19.06.2007	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Lake Ohrid, Macedonia Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z-one Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered spiral on SIV course but could not pull opposite brake hard enough to recover. Panicked and pulled wrong brake making spiral lock in.	Injury Pilot: Fr cheekbone, bruising
Date 13.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: Novice	Location Darley Moor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student suffered weak link break as a result of pulling down on controls to get into harness. Landed heavily on feet.	Injury Pilot: Bruised ankle
Date 11.06.2007	Pilot Male	Location Chavenage Airstrip, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot performing aerobatic manoeuvres at low level got into difficulties and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 10.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: FLPA	Location Chavenage Green, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Action Gt Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bailey, 4s 175	Summary Pilot concentrating on landing close to marshals at comp did not notice parked hang glider. Cage struck hang glider wing causing some damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P	Location Model Ridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Ra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot accidentally spun glider at low level and decided to full stall rather than risk spiralling into the ground. Too low for emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: Bruising whiplash
Date 09.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: Novice	Location Selsley Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Makalu Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student flew into power lines in corner of landing field. .	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP	Location St Catherines Down, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Speed Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary During tandem tow weaklink broke and bridal recoiled into passengers face. Weaklink had been mounted back to front exposing metal housing.	Injury Pilot: Thick lip
Date 08.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Parlick West, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot reached landing field with insufficient height to turn into wind. Landed heavily having failed to plf correctly.	Injury Pilot: Fr hand
Date 06.06.2007	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP	Location Cat Bells, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Magnum Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot performed perfect landing but passenger placed foot down awkwardly.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot

Last updated: 22 June 2025

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