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 3234 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 12.04.2019	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years	Location Pandy, Monmouthshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Recently qualified pilot flew into leeside turbulence causing his glider to collapse. Pilot landed in rocks. Pilot was not a member of the local club and the site was classed as members only.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 12.04.2019	Pilot Female Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 101 hours (10 hours) 177 flights (15 flights)	Location Primrose Valley,, Filey, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Anakis 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted a top landing at a coastal site but was caught out by rotor turbulence. Glider suffered a frontal collapse and the pilot landed heavily sustaining serious injuries.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 10.04.2019	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 6 flights (6 flights)	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Iona Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. This resulted in a student having to make a top landing but was then dragged.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 10.04.2019	Pilot Unknown	Location UK	Wing Type Other Wing: N/a	Summary A service centre discovered that the bridle on a Gin Gingo Airlite harness had been sewn into the seem of the harness during manufacture. The seam was unpicked and the bridle released, then the seam repaired.	Injury Unknown
Date 10.04.2019	Pilot Male Flying Experience: 6 years 1 hour 10 flights	Location West Fell, Cumbria, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom Launch Type: Foot	Summary Instructor was caught out by sudden (over a 20 second period) increase in wind strength. Ground handling student was dragged spraining his ankle and bruising his ribs.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 02.04.2019	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 80 hours 127 flights (30 flights)	Location Lijar Levente, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink on landing approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine
Date 02.04.2019	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 940 hours (120 hours) (48 flights)	Location Col du Forclaz, Doussard, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 King Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot's glider displayed parachutal (deep stall) characteristics throughout an SIV course. On the final full stall of the third run of the second day the glider exited with two small cravats. As the pilot turned towards the landing/shore the glider went in to parachutal (deep stall). The glider on this occasion recovered quickly but with the subsequent height loss the pilot only had enough height to do a down wind landing approach with one cravat/big ear still in. To turn into wind would have risked a further stall. As the pilot was running off his excess speed he fell fracturing his arm.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 01.04.2019	Pilot Male Age: 20 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 3 hours (3 hours) 10 flights (10 flights)	Location Pandy, Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring the pilot turned away from the slope too late and collided with the slope.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 30.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 155 hours (3 hours) 358 flights (10 flights)	Location Westbury White Horse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Nevada Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off and noticed a brummell hook from his system had become detached and fallen inside his pod harness. Pilot continued to fly and landed safely. Pilot took off again and decided not to bother with the detached hook. He then noticed his foot place was out of position due to the hook not being attached.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 60 hours (25 hours) 97 flights (39 flights)	Location WLMAC, Harefield/Rickmansworth, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Slalom Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched into the light wind at sunset with near nil wind conditions and flew a circuit of the model plane airstrip and. While flying downwind at around 50ft the left trim slipped open sending the glider into a sharp steep spin into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Last updated: 2 December 2024

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