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 25.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 32 years 315 hours (25 hours) 426 flights (13 flights)	Location El Penon, Valle de Bravo, Mexico Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched from mountain take-off and proceeded to fasten harness zip. In doing so pilot entered a gentle left turn and also slowed glider. Pilot entered a stalled left turn and collided with trees, falling to the ground below.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 23.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 41 years 350 hours (40 hours) 650 flights (60 flights)	Location Wingland Airfield, Spalding, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Dudek Solo Launch Type: Powered Engine: Bulldog, Moster 185	Summary During a 'go around' at 50ft agl, half of the carbon propeller detached causing severe vibrations. A fault with the pre-production Iris "Quickie" propeller hub was suspected.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years 500 hours (75 hours) 500 flights (75 flights)	Location Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched then noticed that a rise had become caught in the B/C riser pull system. This caused the wing to enter a turn but pilot was able to release it with difficulty.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 21 years 900 hours (2 hours) 1800 flights (4 flights)	Location Milk Hill White Horse, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Triple 7 Rook 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot stalled while ridge soaring and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 11.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 25 years 500 hours	Location Fochriw, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary While preparing for launch, pilot was made aware that his parachute handle pins were not correctly located in their respective keepers. Harness and parachute had just returned from being serviced.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 49 years 2000 hours	Location Sutton Meadows, Huntingdon, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes RX5 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary During an aerotow conversion course the pilot's release mechanism kept releasing the line while the tug was on a gentle right turn. On inspection it was found that the release could be made to release accidentally by applying force to the right side. The release was an unbranded copy of a Koch type, twin gate release.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 31.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 300 hours (10 hours) 200 flights (10 flights)	Location Piedechinche, Colombia Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Explorer 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed on partially hidden rock having established initial chosen landing field was not suitable.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 30.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P Flying Experience: 20 years 190 hours (8 hours) 240 flights (20 flights)	Location Westbury, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Puma Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had near miss with tandem paraglider while approaching the hill to make a landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 9 years 900 hours (80 hours) 2000 flights (120 flights)	Location Rushup, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot caught foot in hole on uneven ground having performed a normal slope landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 13.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 80 hours	Location None, None, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn Blacklight 2	Summary Following the servicing of a U-Turn Blacklight 2 paraglider, the pilot was informed that the porosity results were low, being in the low teens and single figure readings. The glider is three years old with approx 60 hours airtime.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 21 June 2025

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