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 14.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 100 hours (14 hours) 232 flights (37 flights)	Location Bo Peep, South Downs, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chilli 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Immediately after launching pilot moved left to avoid a student who had just been launched. Pilot was then caught by gust and collided with a fence.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries
Date 13.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 1000 hours (70 hours) 500 flights (30 flights)	Location Bradwell, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Tango x race Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had midair collision when another glider, being flown in to opposite direction, struck the bottom of his harness.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 60 hours (10 hours) 70 flights (10 flights)	Location Private field, West Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Spyder Launch Type: Powered Engine: Air Conception, Nitro 200	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and was caught by sinking air, close to ma tree-line on sloping ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 08.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 46 hours (30 hours) 109 flights (50 flights)	Location Woolacombe, Woolacombe, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance IOTA 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot accidentally spun his glider by applying too much brake, trying to avoid going too far back over the hill. Glider entered a cascade but pilot could not deploy his parachute as his hands were through his brake handles preventing him reaching the deployment handle. Pilot put hands up immediately and glider self-recovered a few metres above the ground. Pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 300 hours	Location Nant y Moel, South East Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Cayenne Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered 50% asymmetric collapse while attempting to climb back up to launch height. Wing then suffered a further, larger collapse before rotating into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 08.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 15 hours 60 flights	Location Bradwell, Deryshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Illusion Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged distance from ridge and caught bottom of harness on a bump on the ridge. Pilot was dragged down ridge into bush.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 1000 hours (60 hours) 500 flights (30 flights)	Location S. Harting, Petersfield, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 King Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged 360 turn over ridge due to wind being stronger than expected. Pilot was forced to make a crosswind top landing resulting in minor injuries.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 06.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 22 years (50 hours) (50 flights)	Location Montmin, Annecy, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Supair Wild Launch Type: Foot	Summary During exit from autorotation exercise, the glider dived and the pilot inadvertently released one brake as it was pulled out of his hand. The bowline above the brake handle and stopper knot on the brake line tag end were pulled through the ceramic ring. In straight and level flight, the pilot attempted to pull the handle down and was unable to as the bowline had jammed in the ceramic ring. Using both hands, he was able to free the handle again.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 05.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 48 years 1000 hours (8 hours) 2500 flights (12 flights)	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing T2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While test flying a glider the pilot found himself in a right hand turn. The pilot could not counter the turn and circled into the hillside. Pilot suspects he may have been flying too slow due to unfamiliarity with the glider.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 01.09.2019	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 650 hours (70 hours)	Location Dunstable, Dunstable, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra 7 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On launching, pilot noticed that riser became caught on protrusion on karabiner designed to hold harness straps in place. Glider had thin risers making this more likely to occur.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 22 June 2025

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