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 13.07.2004	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Worcester Beacon, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered stall then failed to make immediate recovery. Eventually recovered.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2004	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location Hay Bluff, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric while flying in strong turbulent conditions. The ensuing dive led to a spiral that the pilot could not recover. He deployed his emergency chute and landed safely but was then dragged for 300m. .	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.07.2004	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location The Lawley, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Hi Way Vision Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot became object fixated and allowed himself to get too low with no room to turn away from the hill. Landed heavily and broke upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.07.2004	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During repack deployment handle tore off deployment bag.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.07.2004	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During repack deployment handle/bridle combination was of such a length that the emergency chute was still in harness at full extension of pilots arm. Webbing to webbing conection also. Par Avion.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.07.2004	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During repack it was discovered that pilot had connected maillon at end of chute bridle to second handle on deployment bag as well as to harness bridles. Impossible to deploy as result.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.07.2004	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: AP	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vulcan Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot experienced severe turbulence causing wing to collapse, probably due to lee side rotor. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 05.07.2004	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Frocester, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider when reverse launching in gusty, thermic condotions and was dragged 30m.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shoulder
Date 23.06.2004	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP	Location Ronda La Vieja, Spain Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot turned wrong way on forward launch causing risers to be twisted. Pilot was lifted off ground still twisted and was seen to pull one of the controls in panic. Glider turned sharply throwing pilot against a boulder with great force.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 22.06.2004	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P	Location UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Unqualified (for flpa) pilot crashed flpa and was not discovered until early hours.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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