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 11.10.2021	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Cayenne Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot turned towards hill while thermalling on busy site but lost control and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Pelvis
Date 25.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 350 hours	Location Nont Sarah's (Buckstone Edge), Marsden Moor, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had near miss with a drone he suspects was being flown by a FPV controller. Pilot was unable to locate drone owner.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 32 years 1000 hours (20 hours) 1000 flights (10 flights)	Location Boviel, Dungiven, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro Launch Type: Foot	Summary Control handle failed while pilot was thermalling. Handle failed at the point where the webbing attaches to the swivel. Swivel did not go through the pully and pilot was able to retrieve and knot the handle back as a temporary in-flight fix.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Pilot Power Flying Experience: 5 years 20 hours (20 hours) 40 flights (40 flights)	Location Wingland Airfield, Spalding, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spyder Launch Type: Powered Engine: Scout, Scout	Summary Shortly after take off, while getting comfortable the throttle cable went though cage netting and impacted the prop. Pilot carried out emergency landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 120 hours (30 hours) 200 flights (20 flights)	Location Alos, Alpes Maritimes, Alos, France Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged height and available landing space. Pilot attempted to land but stalled one side of the wing resulting in a heavy landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 10.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 1000 hours (40 hours)	Location Csolnok, Csolnok, Hungary Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra 7 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring pilot had mid-air with drone that caused damage to lines and cells in the centre of the wing. On colliding with the 25cm drone the glider pitched back and forward but then behaved normally allowing the pilot to top land safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.09.2021	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 46 years 1000 hours (5 hours) 1500 flights (5 flights)	Location Pinacle Hill East, Great Malvern, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Avian Cheetah EVO 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On approach to landing the pilot did not recognise the light wind conditions, nor did they appreciate the extent to which the field sloped away in the direction of landing. This resulted in a long, ground effect glide across the field. Pilot flared hard but crashed into boundary hedge.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 29.08.2021	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 32 hours (21 hours) 46 flights (32 flights)	Location Blorenge, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ICARO Gravis 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot misjudged the wind strength and conditions on approach to land and was too low behind obstacles to glide into the landing field. They landed on an area of road between houses.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.08.2021	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 3 hours (1 hour) 26 flights (9 flights)	Location Lords Seat, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Muse 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was blown back whilst ridge soaring in strong conditions above the spine-back section of the hill. The pilot experienced an asymmetric collapse which reinflated and the pilot landed without further incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.08.2021	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years	Location Winter Hill, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot sprained their ankle on an area of uneven ground during a slope landing. The pilot considered that the mountain climbing boots they wore prevented more serious injury.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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