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 21.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P	Location Grasmere Wind Strength: 28-34 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered heavy landing having landed in unexpected valley wind.	Injury Pilot: Bruised pelvis
Date 19.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Kobala, Slovenia Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Synergy Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while thermalling. Made corrective input but wing continued to turn back towards hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr t11 vertebra
Date 18.04.2010	Pilot Female Age: 35 Rating: Under training	Location Muggery, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Karma Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student gave excessive input causing glider to turn sharply. On hands up recovery glider surged and student struck slope.	Injury Pilot: Bruised back
Date 18.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Under training	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Fides Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student slipped while doing forward launch. Broke small bone in foot.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot
Date 18.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Crete Road, Folkestone, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to slope land having lost height in light conditions. Came in faster than expected and put hand out to break fall.	Injury Pilot: Fr fingers
Date 18.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: Under training	Location Wetton Hill, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Icaro Cyber 2+ Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student allowed glider to overshoot on forward launch and glider pulled student over on to shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr collar bone
Date 17.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Under training	Location Kennel farm, UK Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta 2 Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary At 20ft on a low level, self release training flight, student panicked and pulled both brakes causing a stall.	Injury Pilot: Fr sternum, fr rib and elbow
Date 15.04.2010	Pilot Female Age: 32 Rating: CP	Location Col de Forclaz, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged altitude having encountered sink while crossing lake at Annecy. Landed in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Plan Fait, France Wind Strength: 0-11 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 2 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot made poor approach and made aggressive low turn in attempt to make landing area. Glider stalled and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist, shoulder and rib
Date 09.04.2010	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location Pen Cerrig, UK Wind Strength: 12-19 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Paratech P45 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary On slope landing pilots leg struck gorse bush concealing a rock.	Injury Pilot: Leg and ankle fractures

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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