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 17.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: Novice	Location Woldingham Valley, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Zanos Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Student went very slightly off-line on landing and twisted knee.	Injury Pilot: Twisted knee
Date 17.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Blease Fell, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilots had mid air while thermaling and became entangled. Both deployed emergency chutes and landed together unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student carried out perfect flight plan but caught foot on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 16.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Ffarmers, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Tattoo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot failed to notice wind had changed direction and came in for slope landing downwind.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula, fr ankle
Date 15.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P	Location Tinto, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Vibe Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot deployed emergency chute after asymmetric collapse and landed safely having carried out PLF.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: Novice	Location Rhossili, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Fides Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student overshot top landing and on coming around for a second attempt got too low and landed heavily down wind.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 11.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP	Location Batcombe, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Artax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot caught out by sink on approach to landing. Struck hand on landing but landed ok otherwise.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist
Date 07.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Ringstead, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Atis Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot left turn into wind late and turned aggressively. Stumbled on landing and put out hand causing injury.	Injury Pilot: Fr wrist (collis)
Date 01.07.2006	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Filey, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Syntax Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot decided to land short of normal landing area to gathering children. Collided with parked car on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.06.2006	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP	Location L Bohinj, Slovenia Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z One Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pliot nearly drowned having landed in a lake following siv manoeuvre.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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