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).

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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 02.04.2019	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 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: 32 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: 7 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: 18 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: 8 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
Date 28.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 42 years 1000 hours	Location Defford Croft airfield, Defford /Worcestershire, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Moyes RX3.5 Launch Type: Aero Tow	Summary Pilot had low level weak link break during an aerotow and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Head Injuries
Date 27.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 1600 hours (21 hours) (60 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Hungerford, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Triple Seven Queen 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed due to SOS on flight instrument. On taking off again the pilot did not do a pre-flight check and found his right hand brake handle was looped through the C lines. Pilot was able to steer using brake line above the handle until clear of the hill and was then able to untangle the handle.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.03.2019	Pilot Female Age: 27 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 5 hours (1 hour) 25 flights (4 flights)	Location Westbury Whitehorse, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot got too close to the slope while avoiding another paraglider approaching from the opposite direction. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 400 hours	Location Lucena, Lucena, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered large asymmetric collapse shortly after take-off. Glider rotated and dived towards the slope before the pilot had time to react.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 25.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 51 Flying Experience: 9 years 130 hours (15 hours) 205 flights (20 flights)	Location Mam Tor, Castleton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Whilst soaring in changeable conditions the pilot got leeside of the hill and the glider dropped rapidly. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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