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 3234 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 27.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Swyre Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird 2- One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken ulna & radius
Date 24.05.2002	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Field, Roxton Road, Chawston, Beds, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Report received from AAIB - low level paraglider collapse.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 12.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Helicopter flew low over site.	Injury Unknown
Date 12.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Little Atherfield Farm, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Wills Wing Eagle 164 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Doodlebug Power Unit	Summary First landing approach was too high, pilot made a second attmept which was still too high. He overshot and flew to an alternative field but flew into rotor behind a hedge causing the aircraft to stall twice before impacting the ground.	Injury Pilot: Knocked unconcious, bleeding from nose, general bruising.
Date 12.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P	Location Thornhill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Solar Wings Scandal Xkr Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot misjudged landing approach and undershot the intended landing field. He collided with a tall bush resulting in the glider sustaining structural damage.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Female Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Bossington, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a soaring flight the pilot flew downwind at 500ft agl to land at the car park. At 250ft the canopy suffered a major collapse. The pilot chose to throw her emergency parachute which opened immediately. She landed uninjured.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: CP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Swing Mistral 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot performing 360 degree turns whilst low. During one turn the glider encountered sinking air with the result that he was unable to complete the turn, the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Cracked/fractured l1 vertibrae
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: AP	Location Bradwell Edge, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Icaro 2000	Summary Pilot approaching top landing field misjudged windstrength and made his final turn too low leaving insufficient height to clear a wall at the downwind end of the field. The pilot landed cross wind behind the wall.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Xbow Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Hang glider pilot nosed in whilst top landing in a small field. Was seen to approach with insufficient airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Knee grase
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Magic Iv Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind strength on landing approach which resulted in his landing approach being too far back behind landing field. He narrowly avoided a collision with a barbed wire fence.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 2 December 2024

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