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:

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).

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 25.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 6 hours	Location King Tor, Dartmoor, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit heavy sink while ridge soaring and was unable to turn away from the ridge before landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

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

Date 25.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 51	Location Mam Tor NW, Edale, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot got blown back over spine-back ridge in increasingly windy conditions. Pilot crashed on the lee side.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Internal Injuries

Date 25.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 27 years (1 flight)	Location Llangollen, Llangollen, UK Wind Strength: 35-40 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Sport 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot returning to the sport after 10 year lay off. Pilot made rushed launch but was able to get off and flew for 10-15 mins. Pilot made safe landing but was then ground looped breaking an upright.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 21 years 160 hours (5 hours) 300 flights (4 flights)	Location N/a, N/a, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota	Summary During a kit inspection as part of guided XC week pilot discovered his parachute had been incorrectly mounted by a service centre. The parachute was impossible to deploy as the bridle had been routed down the right side of the harness and the deployment handle on the left.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 500 hours (10 hours) 1500 flights (10 flights)	Location Combe Gibbet, Hungerford, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: 777 Queen 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off but due to thermic activity masking the true wind direction he did not realise the wind was off the slope. Shortly after take-off the pilot sustained an asymmetric collapse that turned him into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Date 24.03.2019	Pilot Female Age: 24	Location Gribbles, Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student fell over during an aborted launch. Student was able to continue training.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 45 hours (13 hours) 90 flights (22 flights)	Location Westbury, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While thermalling at low level pilot had a mid-air collision with another paraglider who was ridge soaring. Pilots took avoiding action at the last moment resulting in wing tips brushing against each other. Pilots continued flying.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 24.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 26 hours (26 hours) 76 flights (76 flights)	Location Firle, UK, East Sussex, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot with ridge on his right had mid-air collision with low airtime pilot. The low airtime pilot appeared to take no avoiding action despite having eye contact resulting in wing tips colliding. Pilot with ridge on right landed heavily but was unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 21.03.2019	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 34 years 2000 hours (30 hours) 3000 flights (40 flights)	Location Captain Cooks, Great Ayton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Meru Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed safely in a stock-free field and was then confronted by an irate farmer who threatened to damage his glider, standing on it in the process.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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