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 08.09.2007	Pilot Female Age: 42 Rating: Novice	Location Hells Mouth, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student stumbled when turning to regain control of wing that had gone off to one side during reverse launch.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow, knee ligament damage
Date 05.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Bell Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot was caught out by gust during reverse launch which dragged him back into a parked car before glider brought under control.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.09.2007	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Arcane Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level and impacted heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 26.08.2007	Pilot Male Rating: Novice	Location Truleigh Hill Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Bright Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary While on launch run during a forward launch, canopy suffered asymmetric and pulled student over onto shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Fr clavicle
Date 26.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: P	Location Corndon, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Trango 2.1 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot fell out of thermal while close to hillside and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr ribs, internal injuries
Date 25.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Cassino, Italy Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Glider stalled at 3m while on finals and pilot landed heavily in seated position.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 24.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 35 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student tripped on landing.	Injury Pilot: Cuts, grazed knee
Date 23.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP	Location Saltburn Cliffs, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Rookie Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to clear a transverse ridge on final approach and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr l1 vertebra
Date 11.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered symmetric collapse at 50ft and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra t12, fr ankle
Date 10.08.2007	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP	Location Kirk Fell, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Zulu Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot did not see low voltage power lines on landing and struck them when 2m from ground. No injuries but equipment destroyed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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