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 07.01.2001	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: AP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Pilot hit tree - no details.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg, fr finger, concussion.
Date 28.12.2000	Pilot Male Age: 36	Location Buckingham Palace, UK	Wing Type Powered PG Launch Type: Powered	Summary Paramotor pilot (Non BHPA member) landed his aircraft in the grounds of Buck Palace.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.12.2000	Pilot Female Age: 24	Location Macher, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary During ground handliing trim problem discovered. It was found that c and d lines had shrunk by 10mm.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.12.2000	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Rio Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary The pilot made his approach to top landing too far back and with insufficient airspeed the glider stalled through the wind gradient.	Injury Pilot: Fractures of both arms (humerus).
Date 15.12.2000	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Axon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider pilot heard shouting during a soaring flight he turned to look behind at the moment that a hang gliders wing tip clipped the back of his harness. Both pilots landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.11.2000	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Frinton, UK Wind Strength: 40-48 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Enterprise Combat Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Broken clip supplied for examination. Glider negatively loaded during rigging - loud bang heard after launch - Pilot managed to land safely and discovered that the vb limiter strap has become detached due to a distorted clip.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.10.2000	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Llantysellio, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ADG Tigra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider launched into very strong turbulent conditions and was immediately blown back over launch - he attempted to land but was dragged back over the hill.	Injury Pilot: Compression fracture of two vertebrae. sprained ankle
Date 04.09.2000	Pilot Unknown	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr collarbone
Date 21.07.1919	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 1000 hours (200 hours)	Location Thurstaston Wirral Country Park, Thurstaston, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2	Summary Jogger running across the site not looking where she was going, ran over paraglider lines & almost tripped whist the equipment was being laid out for preflight inspection. No injuries.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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