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 11.10.2001	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP	Location Sieghford, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Powered HG Wing: Airwave Classic 14 Launch Type: Powered Engine: Radne, Racket 120	Summary The hand throttle on a powered hg harness caught behind the rear rigging wire during flight causing a climbing turn.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shoulder.
Date 24.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 27 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stumbled and injured wrist during attempted forward launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 22.09.2001	Pilot Unknown	Location Rudlers North, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student attempted to run off excess speed during slope landing, turned ankle on rough ground.	Injury Pilot: Sprained ankle.
Date 22.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: CP	Location France	Wing Type Unknown	Summary The zipper holding the back section of a Lubin TX 11 harness burst during flight.	Injury Unknown
Date 22.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Firle, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Ruptured tendon, right leg.
Date 22.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Tintin Epidavros, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Bandit Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilkot misjudged his landing approach resulting in him overshooting into some trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr (l) humerus, bruised rib, bruised (l) thigh.
Date 21.09.2001	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: P	Location Montmin, Col De La Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova X-Act Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pink Nova fabric tore easily . The glider was three years old and had been flown for 79 hours.	Injury Unknown
Date 18.09.2001	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Wing: Moyes Xtralight	Summary Two carbon fibre dive sticks broke in separate incidents, one on an extacy the other an xtralight sx2.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Pilot failed to execute an emergency canopy collapse following an aborted forward launch. Part of the canopy contacted the motor causing damage to the lines and prop.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.09.2001	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Sourton Tor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew into a rocky outcrop during an extended top to bottom flight. .	Injury Pilot: Two broken legs.

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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A number of incident analysis reports are also available in the safety section of our website. These are compiled from the individual incident reports submitted during the course of each year.

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