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 20.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic 4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following launch the pilot was unable to assume the prone position in the harness. Upon later inspection he discovered that the internal harness chord had broken.	Injury Unknown
Date 19.06.2002	Pilot Male	Location Glynde Sussex	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Report received from sussex police, awaiting IR.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified. ambulance called.
Date 12.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Dune De Pyla, France Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot caught in venturi effect whilst ridge soaring. He bagan to drift backwards over the ridge and collided with a tree injuring his arm.	Injury Pilot: Broken arm/ elbow la teste - casualty in bordeaux- france
Date 08.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location Newhaven Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Oxygen Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During wingovers canopy collapsed then recovered violently breaking several lines. Pilot deployed parachute.	Injury Pilot: Cut through left eyebrow, bruises, shock and damaged ego!
Date 08.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: CP	Location Hive Beach, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Alto Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot flying coastal ridge misjudged wind strength and direction and was unable to fly back to his launch point. He attemptted to top land the cliff site but flew into turbulent air behind the ridge, causing his glider to drop.	Injury Pilot: Bumps and bruises
Date 08.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Hillend, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot launched into turbulent conditions resulting in the canopy pitching forward and backwards and finally entering a 180 degree spin. With insufficient height to recover the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Bruising to left shin & impact to small of back
Date 04.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following launch the pilot noticed that the right control line was looped around another line. The pilot was able to slope land.	Injury Unknown
Date 04.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 27	Location Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, UK	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider	Summary Report received from AAIB of hang glider crash.	Injury Pilot: Uspecified
Date 04.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Scirocco Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary The pilot followed ridge to a position in which the ridge and wind direction were almost parallel. As he was unable to penetrate back upwind the pilot attempted to land on a small grassy area, turbulence led to a frontal collapse pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: Cuts, bruises, muscle & ligament damage, spine trauma ambulance to a & e aberistwith
Date 01.06.2002	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Malaku Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary During landing the canopys wing tip fell onto a pilot. The pilot then noticed a line trapped in the Brummel hook on the speed system. The line had been damaged by the hook. The diameter of the gap in the hooks was smaller than line diameter.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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