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 3239 entries for all wing types

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 10.07.2018	Pilot Female Rating: CP	Location Pontlottyn, Heads of the Valleys/ Merthyr Tydfil, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot appeared to enter spiral dive while attempting to thermal. Glider then suffered an asymmetric collapse and pilot crashed onto the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 10.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 39 5 flights (5 flights)	Location Hay Bluff (NE), Hay-on-Wye, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student allowed glider to go off to one side while attempting a reverse launch. Student was pulled to the side and stepped awkwardly on a tussock damaging his ankle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 09.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 3 hours 7 flights (2 flights)	Location Hay Bluff, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged distance from the ridge and failed to turn away resulting in pilot colliding with the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 08.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 24 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 25 hours (3 hours) 74 flights (13 flights)	Location Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Flexwing Hang Glider Wing: Wills Wing Eagle Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot made emergency landing having aborted a tow due to the release activating prematurely as it caught on the basebar. Pilot made good landing but stubbed toe causing a fracture.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 07.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: Trainee Flying Experience: 7 years (1 hour)	Location Mount Caburn Airworks training field, Glynde, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot	Summary Glider went offline to the left while student was practising forward launches. Student was pulled over onto left side causing damage to shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 06.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 61 2 flights	Location Darley Moor Airfield, Ashbourne, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom3 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Day one student on third flight failed to keep legs down and did not flare on landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine
Date 04.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 25 hours (6 hours) 30 flights (4 flights)	Location Anstey, Leicestershire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Powered PG Wing: Ozone Indy Launch Type: Powered Engine: Power Jet, V3	Summary Pilot had frontal collapse at 600ft while on landing approach. Pilot regained control at 60ft but struck power lines causing the pilot to pendulum underneath to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 220 hours (65 hours) 350 flights (90 flights)	Location Laragne, Gap, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot accidentally flew leeside was was blown over village in turbulent air. Pilot landed hard and fast.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 01.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 10 hours	Location Paradiso, Bassano, Italy Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and turned downwind landing at speed into trees.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 01.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 10 hours (5 hours) 30 flights (8 flights)	Location Basano Del Grappa, Basano Del Grappa, Italy Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic	Summary Pilot landed down wind at speed having changed final approach direction to avoid construction crane.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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