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).

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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 3283 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 15.10.2022	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 195 hours (25 hours) 225 flights (20 flights)	Location Coastal, Matalascanas, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched and noticed speed bar line had snagged on the chest strap causing the glider to turn right. Pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 03.10.2022	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 20 hours (5 hours) 40 flights (6 flights)	Location Babadag 1900m, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was flying leeside and suffered an asymmetric collapse resulting in a cravat spiral. Pilot deployed their emergency parachute and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 29.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 46 years 1000 hours 800 flights (42 flights)	Location Ager, 25691 Àger, Lérida, Spain, Spain Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Fuse 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary During a dual paraglider take off, the launch assistant's hand became caught in the red 'launch assist' handle, situated on the passenger harness. Assistant was able to release their hand before being lifted off the ground, just as the glider launched.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 24.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 3000 hours (65 hours) 2000 flights (30 flights)	Location Babadag 1700, Olu Deniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 Queen 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot reversed launched and on turning to face forwards encountered a dust devil. Pilot was lifted up and spun round before being dragged across the take-off area.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 38 years 2000 hours (4 hours) 3000 flights (4 flights)	Location Ager Montsec, Spain Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: Strong	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing U2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was assisted towards launch by another experienced pilot. A thermal was blowing through and so a third pilot held the left wing wire from behind. Hang check was performed. Pilot lifted the A frame and was assessing conditions when the lower front wires came away from the nose ripping out of the assistants fingers. The pilot and wing were lifted backwards, 2-3 m into the air. The assistant on the left side wire was able to hold on and so the glider slewed around and came down sideways to the wind. The pilot landed on feet. The lower front wires keyhole tang nose catch had somehow disconnected itself.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 20.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 44 years 2000 hours (60 hours) 4000 flights (40 flights)	Location Pena Negra, Piedrahita, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While thermalling, pilot noticed left stabilo line had snapped. Having replaced the line pilot noticed that while thermalling to the right, in turbulent conditions, he had a tendency to push the left brake handle forward. This resulted in the brake line and stabilo line rubbing against each other.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 20.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 9 years 330 hours (30 hours) 700 flights (60 flights)	Location Kronplatz, Italy, Italy Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence, Foehn	Wing Type Speedflyer/Miniwing Wing: Swing Mirage RS 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched with a group, 3 wings in front had good glide, as did the 1 behind. Pilot launched into sinking air and impacted slope heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 16.09.2022	Pilot Unknown	Location N/A, N/A, UK	Wing Type Other	Summary During repack, licensed packer noticed that the bridle had been removed from the parachute. The lines were connected directly to a maillon rapide. Problem had not been picked up on two previous repacks.	Injury Unknown
Date 12.09.2022	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 56 hours (5 hours)	Location Levante SE landing field, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Axis Pluto 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot released big ears and gave two deep hard pumps on both brakes to attempt to clear the ears. The glider entered a stall and the pilot put hands up resulting in an immediate surge forward resulting in frontal collapse and rapid height loss.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 11.09.2022	Pilot Female Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years 70 hours (20 hours) 200 flights (30 flights)	Location Rutland, Rutland, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 9 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot was unable to release Gin tow bridal from winch line as the locking pin was inserted too far into the loop of the three ring circus. With the loop going over the eye of the locking pin. Winch operator cut line and pilot eventually 'S' turned down to land.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 21 May 2025

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