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 3287 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 15.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years 40 hours (25 hours) 100 flights (70 flights)	Location Eyam Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus RS Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was soaring in thermic conditions and experienced a large asymmetric collapse close to the hill. The pilot was seen to be making control inputs in an attempt to recover to normal flight, but was unable to recover before impacting the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 15.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 40 years 1000 hours (19 hours) 1000 flights (28 flights)	Location Sutton Meadows, Peterborough, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Rigid Hang Glider Wing: A-I-R VR Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Immediately prior to the aerotow commencing the conditions were nil wind. When "all out" was called, the left wing rose first and continued to rise out of the trolley, caught by a sudden crosswind. The right wingtip came into contact with long grass, turning the glider and trolley. The weak link broke, but the glider had left the runway and stopped nose down in crops.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 15.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 210 hours (20 hours) 900 flights (30 flights)	Location Nant-Y-Moel, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Bi-Beta 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary During a tandem launch the Advance Hybrid hard spreader rotated around its in-built carbon bar and locked in this position when under the load of the pilot and passenger. The pilot landed without incident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 14.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 1500 hours (20 hours) 2000 flights (30 flights)	Location Telegraph Hill, Batcombe (Dorset), UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance X Alps 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot became aware during flight that a hook knife had been left inside the paraglider. The pilot landed without incident. Upon inspection it was found that the hook knife had caused damage to the wing's internal structure.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 31 years 1200 hours (40 hours)	Location Brecon Beacons, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 10 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse having encountered sever turbulence. Due to low altitude pilot deployed emergency parachute. Pilot landed on hillside without injury.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 228 hours (20 hours) 535 flights (41 flights)	Location Hay Bluff, Powys, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary During take-off, the pilot's foot caught a line of another paraglider on the ground. The other pilot managed to untangle the line and the launch was then able to proceed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 09.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Milk Hill, Marlborough, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 10 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was seen to induce a spin at between 50 to 100ft above takeoff. The pilot then made a subsequent control input, stalling the glider to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thoracic Spine
Date 08.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 47 years 650 hours (20 hours) 1000 flights (45 flights)	Location Sutton Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK	Wing Type Other Wing: Unknown Hang Glider launch trolley	Summary After the final, successful, aerotow launch of the day the launch trolley front left side wheel bracket was discovered to be bent and broken on one side. Subsequent inspection found cracks in three of the four flanges on top of the bottom end of the support struts to which the two front wheels attach.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 29 years 1000 hours (30 hours) (10 flights)	Location Pen Cerrig calch, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flow Paragliders Fusion Light Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot flew close to the hill in thermic conditions in order to observe an incident / activity on the ground. The paraglider experienced an asymmetric collapse, turning it towards the hill. The pilot's corrective control input stalled the paraglider and the pilot impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 05.06.2021	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 29 years 2000 hours (40 hours) 1000 flights (35 flights)	Location Pen Cerrig calch, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Leopard Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was ridge soaring in thermic conditions. They encountered sinking air on a downwind beat and were unable to turn away from the hill due to flight paths of other pilots. The pilot was unable to out-glide the shallow slope and impacted the ground.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder

Last updated: 14 June 2025

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