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 paraglider wings 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 2497 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.07.2011	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP	Location Cairn Coedog, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Sprint Evo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height while attempting to thermal resulting in 360 degree turn too close to the ridge. Pilot struck rock with underside of harness.	Injury Pilot: Fr l3 vertebra
Date 11.07.2011	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Eden 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On approach to landing pilot suspects he may have encountered rotor turbulence. Pilot landed heavily from 40ft.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis and vertebrae. dislocated shoulder.
Date 10.07.2011	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Swinside, Lorton Valley, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 8 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Flying slowly to degrade glide on final approach to small field, pilot stalled lhs and spun into ground.	Injury Pilot: Ruptured bladder
Date 03.07.2011	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: AP	Location UK Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered symmetric collapse at low level while approaching to land. Fell heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis
Date 02.07.2011	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Wardon Bay, UK Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Attis 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost height attempting to get into harness. Pilot struck cliff.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 27.06.2011	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery Bottom, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student flew through strong thermal on top to bottom flight and suffered symmetric front collapse. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Winded
Date 22.06.2011	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Plan Fait, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening wind and flew into turbulent air. Crashed heavily into trees.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebrae, fr sternum and rib.
Date 17.06.2011	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P	Location Black Knowe Head, UK Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot entered stall while descending through heavy rain in strong, gusty conditions. Landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 14.06.2011	Pilot Female Age: 50 Rating: AP	Location Mere, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Golden 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot lost control of glider after asymmetric collapse and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 14.06.2011	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P	Location Druim na Creige, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot took off in windy conditions and found he was unable to penetrate as expected. Was blown back into turbulent air and landed on wall. PLF saved further injury.	Injury Pilot: Fr pelvis

Last updated: 21 June 2025

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