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 3239 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 18.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P	Location Captain Cook, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted to slope land having failed to find thermal on light wind day. Pilot landed in bracken and struck foot on hidden boulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr heal, pelvis, sacrum
Date 18.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Babadag, Turkey Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zoom Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric (on hill side) while close to top of hill. Recovered glider but could not avoid impact with hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr coccyx fr shoulder
Date 16.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: Novice	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Sunbeam Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Tremaen, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed then took off again having waited for thermic cycle to come through. Unfortunately he did not pre-flight check and took off with twisted risers resulting in a spin and heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 07.08.2005	Pilot Female Age: 40 Rating: AP	Location The Lawley, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot used anchorman to assist in takeoff. Anchorman turned wrong way on launch and pilot went off with twist in risers causing glider to turn into hill.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 07.08.2005	Pilot Female Age: 27 Rating: Novice	Location Clough Head, UK	Wing Type Wing: Gin Bolero Plus	Summary Student was caught out by gust when standing with glider and was lifted off ground. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 06.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Pulsar Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid-air while ridge soaring and had to deploy emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.07.2005	Pilot Male	Location Pennines, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unknown pilots intent on self training causing a pain in the Pennines. Not much can be done!	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.07.2005	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Response M Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while ridge soaring in thermic and turbulent conditions. Glider turned and spiraled into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 16.07.2005	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered 40% asymmetric collapse and failed to properly control glider resulting in a heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, whiplash

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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