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 2542 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 14.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Devils dyke, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Single Skin	Summary Pilot was observed attempting a 360 degree turn close to the hill. Glider then started to spin but recovered by the pilot. Subsequent dive induced hard downwind landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 13.10.2023	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Kona 2	Summary Paramotor wing was sent for its first service just after 2 years and 35 flying hours. The porosity measured on the top surface leading edge Dominico 30D material was much lower the expected with readings of 25, 20 and 13 seconds when measuring the porosity using a JDC Porosimeter. The Porsher EasyFly material used for the bottom surface was also measured and received excellent readings over 275 seconds.	Injury Unknown
Date 13.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 31 hours	Location Billing, Bir Billing, India	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary While on a flight Pilot discovered their magnetic compass was not operating correctly. Magnets in the Advance Cockpit Carry were preventing the compass from working.	Injury Unknown
Date 08.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 4 years 200 hours (65 hours)	Location Parlick, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Phi Maestro 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary There were 10 pilots on takeoff and 2 had already flown very briefly. There was nothing unusual about the takeoff but within 1 minute it became clear that there was excessive turbulence. Pilot decided to go to the landing field at the bottom of the hill but suffered a full frontal collapse which resulted in a spiral dive into the side of the hill	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Cervical Spine
Date 08.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 380 hours (33 hours) 645 flights (70 flights)	Location Nanty Moel, Nantymoel, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot encountered strong sinking air whilst attempting to turn into wind during a top landing approach in moderate thermic conditions. They experienced a large asymmetric collapse close to the ground on final approach but avoided injury as their legs were already lowered for landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 3 years 7 hours (7 hours) 7 flights (7 flights)	Location Eype, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Evora Launch Type: Foot	Summary Whilst coastal soaring Pilot lost height so decided to head for the beach landing area. Pilot realised they would not make the landing area so opted to land in the sea rather than land on rocks. Pilot managed to drag equipment ashore.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 04.10.2023	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: Pilot Rating Flying Experience: 9 years 325 hours (37 hours) 600 flights (54 flights)	Location Babadag, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alpina 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary In attempting to avoid tandem pilots pilot made fit landing and attempted to run off speed. Pilot suspects they caught foot on pod skirt causing bad landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 30.09.2023	Pilot Male Age: 29 Rating: P Flying Experience: 4 years 56 hours (23 hours) 230 flights (39 flights)	Location Beachy Head, Eastbourne, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was unfamiliar with site and was flying with adverse wind direction for top landing. Pilot encountered strong turbulence on top landing approach. 40% asymmetric collapse was controlled by the pilot. Pilot safely bottom landed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.09.2023	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 1200 hours (40 hours) 3000 flights (120 flights)	Location Thurnham, Maidstone, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Ikuma 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On a top landing approach pilot flew behind another glider that was also on a landing approach and got caught in its wake turbulence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.09.2023	Pilot Male Age: 71 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years 1145 hours (56 hours) 2527 flights (99 flights)	Location Devil's Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Artik 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit sink while ridge soaring bringing pilot into head on conflict with other pilots. Pilot was now low and travelling down wind then collided with a fence.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Last updated: 15 October 2025

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