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 25.03.2022	Pilot Unknown	Location Whitewool, Hampshire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Five pilots were blown back over over a road to land in a field behind the site. the most extreme was over 300m back from the site. Pilots had been seen to not be penetrating wery much 30 mins earlier. There was a mix of wings flying from red-ribbon to EN D pilots.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 40 hours (20 hours) 25 flights (15 flights)	Location Rush Up, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot whilst completing a 360 exited and re-entered a thermal. Upon re-entering the left wing tip lost pressure and a spin was induced, contributing factor was likely too much brake applied during the turn. Wing re-inflated, dived and the pilot regained control and slope landed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 49 years 10000 hours (4 hours) 10000 flights (20 flights)	Location Mercury, Petersfield, UK	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: A.I.R VR	Summary While making a landing approach having been scratching below hill height, pilot cleared main power lines but did not see spur line. Pilot suspects wing glanced power line causing a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 24.03.2022	Pilot Age: 49 Flying Experience: 11 years 150 hours (1 hour) (3 flights)	Location Blorenge, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ground handling pilot noticed that a speed bar line was looped through the emergency parachute deployment handle. This was recite prior to flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 200 hours (2 hours) 1000 flights (30 flights)	Location Darley Moor, Ashbourne, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot made low turn into finals resulting in a low spin and got foot caught in soft ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 21.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 200 hours (5 hours) 400 flights (12 flights)	Location Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire Moors, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz z6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot caught foot on uneven ground while collapsing wing fracturing ankle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 17.03.2022	Pilot Female Age: 60 Rating: AP	Location Eype, West Bay, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeolite Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was attempting to beach land in strong conditions due to increasing winds. Pilot was applying heavy brakes in order to descend but stalled one wing leading to a spin and a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 15.03.2022	Pilot Female Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years 7000 hours (15 hours) 10000 flights (15 flights)	Location Rush Up, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot initiated reverse launch using inner “A” risers. On inflation, glove & brake line became trapped in the riser. Pilot took off facing backwards, having removed hand from the glove. The trapped brake line caused substantial sideways travel, towards the hill. Pilot managed to free the brake line by grabbing the glove with both hands and using full force to remove it, together with the brake line, from the riser.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.03.2022	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Bunster Hill, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had previously had heavy seated landing. Pilot walked towards glider unaware that his emergency parachute had fallen out. Pilot was lifted off the ground but descended gently.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 15.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 75 Rating: P Flying Experience: 28 years 1075 hours (15 hours) 2015 flights (18 flights)	Location Trefor Rocks, Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base Lite Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered low level asymmetric collapse having experienced a sudden change in wind speed.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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