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 2497 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 07.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: P	Location Tremaen, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot landed then took off again having waited for thermic cycle to come through. Unfortunately he did not pre-flight check and took off with twisted risers resulting in a spin and heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Fr vertebra
Date 07.08.2005	Pilot Female Age: 40 Rating: AP	Location The Lawley, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 5 Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot used anchorman to assist in takeoff. Anchorman turned wrong way on launch and pilot went off with twist in risers causing glider to turn into hill.	Injury Pilot: Spr ankle
Date 06.08.2005	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Pulsar Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot had mid-air while ridge soaring and had to deploy emergency parachute.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.07.2005	Pilot Male	Location Pennines, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Unknown pilots intent on self training causing a pain in the Pennines. Not much can be done!	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.07.2005	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP	Location Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Response M Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while ridge soaring in thermic and turbulent conditions. Glider turned and spiraled into hill.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 16.07.2005	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: CP	Location Combe Gibbet, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered 40% asymmetric collapse and failed to properly control glider resulting in a heavy impact.	Injury Pilot: Bruising, whiplash
Date 16.07.2005	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: Novice	Location Dungiven, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Z-One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student caught out by gust on launch. Twisted ankle badly on controlling glider.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle and fibula
Date 16.07.2005	Pilot Male	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot 360d into the hill at high speed.	Injury Pilot: Fr leg
Date 12.07.2005	Pilot Female Age: 28 Rating: Novice	Location Beddingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student landed heavily having gone off line during low hop flight.	Injury Pilot: Fr fibula
Date 12.07.2005	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: AP	Location Piedraheita, Spain Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 6 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot suffered large collapse while on speed bar at altitude. Pilot deployed emergency chute but suffered broken foot due to 10m/s descent rate at impact.	Injury Pilot: Fr foot

Last updated: 15 June 2025

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