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 2453 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 21.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 25	Location Steyning Bowl, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: FreeX Sun Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tripped and fell whilst ground handling the canopy.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to r arm/shoulder.
Date 20.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 19	Location Barton, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary During a tow launch the canopy gained 6ft altitude before descending due to lack of tension - as it did so the pilots body rotated resulting in the injury.	Injury Pilot: Unspecified injury to left leg.
Date 20.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P	Location Steyning, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Gusts	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Trekking Dynasty Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Flying in turbulent conditions encountered sinking air as he turned away from the ridge. This resulted in him sinking below the ridge and approaching a tree, the pilots attemps to turn away from the tree were too late.	Injury Unknown
Date 19.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: AP	Location Olivers Castle, UK Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Mistral Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot became lost during xc flight. Helipcopter approached and circled him. Pilot landed and was met by military police who cautioned him.	Injury Unknown
Date 17.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Inexperienced pilot attempted 360 degree turn with insufficient height - impacted the hill.	Injury Pilot: Fr both wrists, possible l ankle, bruising etc to face, concussion.
Date 15.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 41	Location Ruddlers West, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Following a successful forward inflation the right control was applied for no apparent reason causing the canopy to bank and pull the pilot over.	Injury Pilot: Fr elbow
Date 14.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 23	Location North Luffenham, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Harley Paramount 9/ 288 Launch Type: Vehicle/Boat Tow	Summary Towing. Land Rover jumped out of gear during tow launch. Ram air parachute descended rapidly from 150ft. Pilot failed to flare and landed on coccyx.	Injury Pilot: Bruised coccyx
Date 08.04.2002	Pilot Unknown	Location Himachal Pradesh, India	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Pilot lost in Himilayas.	Injury Pilot: Missing, presumed fatally injured.
Date 05.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Pena Rubia, Spain Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Sapphire Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details BOI convened.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 04.04.2002	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP	Location Mam Tor, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst performing a reverse launch the pilot became airborne during his turn - he flew the canopy forward. At 15ft the canopy suffered an asymmetric collapse and turned into the hillside, the pilot had insufficient time to correct this.	Injury Pilot: Fr tibia, dl right ankle.

Last updated: 12 December 2024

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