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 03.04.2001	Pilot Male Age: 55	Location Reading Leisure Centre Repack, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary At BFR reserve deployed with centre pull line over canopy, - re-packed inside out.	Injury Unknown
Date 01.04.2001	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Babadag, Turkey Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempted to launch was dragged and became tangled in the lines of his friends canopy and then became airborne with friends canopy wrapped around his head. Another pilot assisted in bringing him down.	Injury Pilot: Grazes.
Date 31.03.2001	Pilot Male Age: 47	Location Lady Manners School Buxton, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Re-pack night several parachute problems discovered.	Injury Unknown
Date 18.03.2001	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P	Location Kennedy Near Nice, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave K4 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilkot realised wind strength had picked up considerably during flight decided to fly xc to a flatter area to land. Landed in very strong wind, was blown backward into trees.	Injury Pilot: Compound fracture right tibia and fibula.
Date 14.03.2001	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Kennedy, France, France Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Clubman 160 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot clipped tree during landing approach.	Injury Pilot: Slight bruising.
Date 03.03.2001	Pilot Unknown	Location Big Fat Repack, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Numerous emergency parachute problems discovered at Big fat Re-pack.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.03.2001	Pilot Male Age: 30	Location Dales Repack Night, UK	Wing Type Unknown	Summary Re-pack night, several parachute problems discovered.	Injury Unknown
Date 25.02.2001	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP	Location Thornhill, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Airwave Klassic Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot on first aerotow foot launch flight, ran too fast on launch resulting in no line tension the glider started to fly but the pilot was unable to keep up with it, glider stalled and was pulled into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Spiral fracture left humerus with nerve damage. nerve palsy radial.
Date 24.02.2001	Pilot Male Age: 33	Location Mystic, Bright, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot did not fasten harness leg straps prior to launch. Held in harness by armpits, could not control the direction of the canopy accurately, this resulted in the pilot landing in a different field from the planned one.	Injury Pilot: Bruised median nerves. reduced use of left arm for one week.
Date 22.02.2001	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Jama, Spain Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: APCO Santana 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Newly qualified pilot performed 360 degree turn with insufficient height, impacted the ground heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fractures of both ankles.

Last updated: 19 May 2025

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