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 2455 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 22.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: P	Location Eype, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Helicopter passed close to paraglider pilots soaring the cliffs.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P	Location Snowdon, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot became disoriented went off course during flight down Snowdon. Suffered asymmetric collapses on lee of spur.	Injury Pilot: Fractured feet, legs, pelvis and spine.
Date 18.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: Under training	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student overcorrected shortly after take off resulting in pendulum into hillside. No injuries.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: CP	Location Treak Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst ridge soaring on a thermic day, pilot heard contact with his wing. Had made contact with another pilot who was higher and flying in opposite direction. Had not seen other pilot.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010	Pilot Female Age: 21 Rating: Under training	Location Treak Cliff, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Logic Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student misjudged vertical separation while ridge soaring and failed to turn away before scraping over top of oncoming glider. Both carried on flying.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: P	Location Pandy, UK Wind Strength: 20-27 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged wind gradient on landing and overshot landing area. Struck railway sleeper on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr tib and fib
Date 12.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mamboo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had been seen to be flying erratically before flying at speed into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Fractured vertebra
Date 12.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: Under training	Location Abinton West, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paramania Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student misjudged landing and hit parked car.	Injury Pilot: Bruised shin
Date 07.06.2010	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: P	Location Stol, Slovenia Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Rebel Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on leaving a thermal. Glider did not recover as expected and entered spiral dive. Pilot was aware of low altitude so threw parachute.	Injury Pilot: Compressed vertebra
Date 06.06.2010	Pilot Female Age: 68 Rating: AP	Location Stol, Slovenia Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zoom Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot got too low in competition and could not make landing field. Landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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