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 31.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 32 years 400 hours (15 hours) 1000 flights (30 flights)	Location Walla Crag, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Alpina 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot miscontrolled rapid exit from a spiral and ended up with twisted risers. Pilot deployed parachute and landed safely on soft ground despite fast landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 30.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 29 hours (12 hours) 57 flights (9 flights)	Location Ringstead, Weymouth, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2	Summary Pilot took off in windy conditions. Pilot applied full speed bar but was still blown back into turbulent area. Pilot landed unhurt.	Injury Unknown
Date 27.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 3 years 14 hours (14 hours) 35 flights (35 flights)	Location Rutland, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Muse 5 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary While preparing for a winch launch the pilot dislodged his parachute. The parachute deployed at 25m causing the launch to be stopped. Pilot landed under his parachute in a stable but firm landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 2500 hours (50 hours) 2500 flights (30 flights)	Location XC, Stoke Rivers, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Zeno Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot hit lift on final approach and had to do a 360. Before completing the 360 the glider collapse completely due to thermic activity and pilot collided with an outbuilding.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 22.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 150 hours (6 hours) 400 flights (20 flights)	Location France Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On landing approach pilot encountered lift. Pilot turned but with excessive control and induced a pendulum under the wing. Pilot landed heavily from 1m.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 16.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 38 years 1500 hours (28 hours) 2400 flights (41 flights)	Location Bradwell, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary After launching, pilot noticed glider had a right turn. Pilot checked but could not see any issues and carried on XC. Pilot also noticed glide was poor so checked again to see knots in brake lines at right tip. Pilot decided to land the knots came out immediately.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years 1000 hours (50 hours)	Location Peña Negra, Piedrahita, Spain Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Thundery	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advace Sigma 10 Launch Type: Foot	Summary After launching pilot noticed parachute deployment handle had become dislodged. Pilot spiralled down and refitted. Pilot suspects speed bar line had pulled it during launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 700 hours (120 hours) 900 flights (150 flights)	Location Kandersteg, Kandersteg, Switzerland Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sup Air Step Launch Type: Foot	Summary On gliding to the landing field from altitude the pilot underestimated the strength of the valley wind. Pilot lost 900m in 4km in turbulent air resulting in landing in a flood defence clearing between trees. Wing tip caught on a tree causing pilot to turn into the trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.07.2022	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 765 hours (31 hours) 715 flights (38 flights)	Location Vault Bay, Cornwall, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring in light conditions pilot encountered sinking air and could not clear vegetation to make the landing area. Pilot landed in dense hawthorn/ bramble patch requiring rescue by the coastguard.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.07.2022	Pilot Female Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 60 hours (33 hours) 184 flights (69 flights)	Location Hill Farm, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 9 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot lost control of glider during forward inflation tow launch. Initial launch was off to the right and pilot was unable to fully centralise before becoming airborne. Glider then rotated and collapsed resulting in the pilot falling from approx 6m and landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Pelvis

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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