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 2493 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 27.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 32	Location Swyre Hill, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird 2- One Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary No details available	Injury Pilot: Broken ulna & radius
Date 24.05.2002	Pilot Male Rating: CP	Location Field, Roxton Road, Chawston, Beds, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Report received from AAIB - low level paraglider collapse.	Injury Pilot: Fatal.
Date 12.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP	Location Kimmeridge, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Helicopter flew low over site.	Injury Unknown
Date 11.05.2002	Pilot Female Age: 43 Rating: CP	Location Bossington, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Matrix Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a soaring flight the pilot flew downwind at 500ft agl to land at the car park. At 250ft the canopy suffered a major collapse. The pilot chose to throw her emergency parachute which opened immediately. She landed uninjured.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 46	Location Monks Down, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Xbow Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Hang glider pilot nosed in whilst top landing in a small field. Was seen to approach with insufficient airspeed.	Injury Pilot: Knee grase
Date 04.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP	Location Kennel Farm, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Whilst Operator was setting guillotines on Koch winch splicing on braided nylon rope failed as he pushed down on bar causing him to fall forward and hit his face on drum.	Injury Pilot: Cut to chin bruizing to cheek bone
Date 04.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: P	Location Hillend Edinburgh, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Promise Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Whilst collapsing the canopy following landing a gust caused the canopy to inflate pulling the pilot up and backwards. The pilots helmet hit a fence and snagged as the rest of his body was pulled over the fence.	Injury Pilot: Concussion & strained muscle in neck
Date 04.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: CP	Location Kennel Farm, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Electron Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Following a tow launch the pilot flew downwind back to launch. He failed to turn into wind to landed - downwind landing.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.05.2002	Pilot Female Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta S	Summary Brummel hooks were wider than 1mm suggested gap - discovered upon inspection.	Injury Unknown
Date 03.05.2002	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: P	Location Dora, Cyprus Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Carbon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Following a soaring flight the pilot appraoched the top landing by making a downwind leg then turning into wind. On turning into wind the pilot realised his glider wasnt penetrating forward. At 20ft his canopy collapsed and he fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Broken right wrist- fractured lower radius

Last updated: 14 May 2025

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