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 28.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 37	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Sentra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attmpted to launch with one leg strap undone. He realised before taking off and aborted the flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.09.2002	Pilot Male Rating: AP	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Saber	Summary Pink undersurface fabric found to be severely degraded by UV during inspection - remainder of the canopy in good condition.	Injury Unknown
Date 21.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 28 Rating: CP	Location West Firle, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot over shot twice whilst attempting to top land. Following his second attempt the canopy suffered a collapse to the right wing causing it rotate and then dive into the hill.	Injury Pilot: Spinal, compression fracture
Date 21.09.2002	Pilot Male	Location Monks Down, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Canopy inflated whilst pilot was prearing for flight, as it did so it caused an airborne pilot to take evasive action.	Injury Unknown
Date 21.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 38	Location Twichill Farm, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: SKY PARAGLIDERS Yang Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped whilst running on take off.	Injury Pilot: Compression fracture to left ankle
Date 20.09.2002	Pilot Female Age: 31 Rating: Novice	Location Blaenavon, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Harmony Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student stalled glider on low hop.	Injury Pilot: Fr ankle
Date 19.09.2002	Pilot Unknown	Location Unknown	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Whilst flying with nearly full speed bar on the pilot noticed that one of the speed bar lines had become free of its pulley. On inspection he noticed that the pin holding the pulley had gradually worked its way loose.	Injury Unknown
Date 15.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Downcourt, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Booster Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot stalled canopy whilst in big ears, canopy dropped back 30 degrees, pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Bruising concussion
Date 15.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP	Location Downcourt, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Booster L Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Canopy stalled whilst in big ears, pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Severe bruising to the buttocks, concussion.
Date 15.09.2002	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: CP	Location Abington West, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Phelix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilkot attempting to lose height to land by s turning. Failed to turn into wind on the final beat and impacted the ground hard.	Injury Pilot: Ankle & leg break

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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