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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 2453 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 24.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP	Location Ffochiw, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Jive Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot flew into the rear of another PG. His canopy suffered an asymmetric collapse followed by a 90 degree turn resulting in downwind track. The canopy dived forward and did not regain normal flight before the pilot impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fracture to upper arm, 2 suspected fractured vertibrae, air helicopter to prnce charles hospital- merthyr
Date 24.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: CP	Location Ffochiw, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Jive Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot launched and gained height and flew into the rear of another airborne pilot - the canopy striking the airborne pilots body. The canopy of the lower pilot collapsed completey and the pilot fell 100ft to the ground.	Injury Unknown
Date 23.07.2002	Pilot Unknown	Location Cox Tor, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Student stepped on his own leg as landed. Canopy was penduluming sideways at the time.	Injury Pilot: Broken leg- abulance to hospital
Date 22.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 30 Rating: P	Location Rosen Garten Dolomites, Italy Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Up Groove Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot attempting to utilise lift whilst low and in the lee of a tree line. His canopy suffered a collapse and then entered a spiral dive. The pilot impacted the slope.	Injury Pilot: Broken ankle and 2 broken vertibrae l1 & l4
Date 21.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Bell Hill, Blandford, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Atlas Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot dragged backwards during attempted launch.	Injury Unknown
Date 21.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Abertysswg, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix	Summary Low level collapse due to turbulence - pilot impacted hill having failed to make correct recovery inputs.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 21.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Flying Planet- Spirit Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst thermal soaring in strng conditions the pilot over controlled the canopy causing it to spin. He immediately threw his emergency parachute which successfully deployed. .	Injury Pilot: Sore back
Date 20.07.2002	Pilot Male Rating: P	Location Barton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Windtech Serek Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During tow launch the weak link broke. The protective muff remained attached to the tow line therefore the unprotected end recoiled and hit the pilot in the mouth.	Injury Pilot: Impact to top lip and frount tooth
Date 20.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Bell Hill, Blandford, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary HG pilot noticed PG being blown backwards towards his parked glider. PG was blown over flat HG. HG pilot caught PG tip lines deflating the canopy.	Injury Unknown
Date 19.07.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P	Location UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Xyon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following launch the pilot took one wrap on the controls. He then encountered rising air in which he applied both controls with the intention of slowing the glider down, the result of this was that the canopy stalled. and the pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Small bite to tongue

Last updated: 12 December 2024

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