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 22.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 years 100 hours (7 hours) 87 flights (5 flights)	Location Windy Knoll, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on final approach. Glider rotated and was blown back over larked cars. Pilot landed on cars but was uninjured.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 22.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 22 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 2 hours (1 hour) 15 flights (3 flights)	Location Macher, Lanzarote, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Aeros Target Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot stalled the glider while ridge soaring, lost control of the glider and impacted the side of the hill. Pilot sustained minor bruising and scratches on left arm, glider was unharmed.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 21.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 57 hours (18 hours) 128 flights (43 flights)	Location Curbar, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot collided with the hill while attempting to sort out possible control line tangle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 16.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years	Location Newhaven, Telscombe Cliffs/Peacehaven, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged height in weakening conditions and collided with a large rock on bottom landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 15.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 19 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 90 hours (5 hours) 120 flights (4 flights)	Location Parlick South, Chipping, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot kited glider up hill only to find it was very windy on top. Pilot attempted to collapse glider but control line became caught in parachute deployment handle and pulled parachute out of harness. Pilot eventually regained control and subsequently discovered flaps on harness to prevent line snags.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 4 hours (4 hours) 9 flights (9 flights)	Location High & Over, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Atlas Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot slipped on landing straining knee.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 07.02.2019	Pilot Male Age: 61 Flying Experience: 6 years 1 hour 10 flights	Location Nigels take off Morocco, Mirleft, Morocco Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student tracked sideways after launching then turned in towards the hill despite being told to turn away by the instructor. Student landed cross-slope heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 31.01.2019	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 18 hours (8 hours) 57 flights (29 flights)	Location Bradwell, Hope Valey, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Team 5 Blue Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was flying with new foot stirrup and on launching caught his speed system around his flight deck. He rectified this then attempted to use his stirrup. On reaching for then stirrup he accidentally grabbed his parachute deployment handle and pulled it, releasing the pins. The parachute deployed and the pilot landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.01.2019	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 300 hours (12 hours) 1000 flights (25 flights)	Location N/A, Ringmer, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 10 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot carried out a test parachute deployment on his Advance Lightness 3 harness in accordance with the harness manual and with the modified handle and deployment bag. He found the parachute would not deploy. He tried a second time pulling slightly rearward and again the parachute would not deploy. In both cases the rearward facing yellow retaining cable bent preventing release. On a third attempt the pilot pulled slightly forwards and the parachute deployed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.01.2019	Pilot Male Age: 78 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 years	Location BF Repack, Reading, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Pilot was repacking square parachute at BFR and noticed just in time that the apex cord was still attached. Pilot removed cord and finished the repack.	Injury Unknown

Last updated: 22 June 2025

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