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 2497 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 11.02.2023	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 25 years 500 hours	Location Fochriw, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary While preparing for launch, pilot was made aware that his parachute handle pins were not correctly located in their respective keepers. Harness and parachute had just returned from being serviced.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 31.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 300 hours (10 hours) 200 flights (10 flights)	Location Piedechinche, Colombia Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Explorer 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed on partially hidden rock having established initial chosen landing field was not suitable.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 21.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 9 years 900 hours (80 hours) 2000 flights (120 flights)	Location Rushup, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot caught foot in hole on uneven ground having performed a normal slope landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 13.01.2023	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 80 hours	Location None, None, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U-Turn Blacklight 2	Summary Following the servicing of a U-Turn Blacklight 2 paraglider, the pilot was informed that the porosity results were low, being in the low teens and single figure readings. The glider is three years old with approx 60 hours airtime.	Injury Unknown
Date 06.01.2023	Pilot Male	Location N/A, N/A, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 6	Summary Glider service on glider less than one year old discovered extensive wear in the area of the stiffening rods on the upper surface, towards the leading edge. Fabric was completely torn in at least 12 locations. Glider had been through two SIV courses at Oludeniz where the abrasive take off surfaces are suspected to have caused the damage.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.11.2022	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 54 hours (4 hours) 186 flights (6 flights)	Location Tinto, South Lanarkshire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent, Flight In Clouds, Fog	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design UFO2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to launch an unfamiliar wing in windy conditions but could not control the wing. Pilot was dragged and his leg caught on uneven ground, dislocating his knee.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 17.11.2022	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years 350 hours (120 hours) 600 flights (200 flights)	Location N/A, Plymouth, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During a test deployment prior to a repack, pilot noticed that the inner container would not release the parachute despite the bight of lines locking the container having come free as expected. Pilot discovered that the no. 4 eyelet grommet was through the closure bungee, preventing the closure flaps from opening.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.11.2022	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 5 years 17 hours (6 hours) 34 flights (9 flights)	Location Kerdous, Km 54 route de tarrafout 850000, Morocco Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Moderate	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was lifted up and dragged back by a gust while preparing to launch. Pilot put feet out in front to try and stop but hit rocks.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 08.11.2022	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 19 years 750 hours (40 hours) 1500 flights (80 flights)	Location N/A, N/A, UK	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary Pilot noticed on Gin Genie Lite 2 that the under seat area holding the foam protector had many ruptured seams. Harness was 6 years old and 450 hours use. Pilot states the harness had no major impacts.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 08.11.2022	Pilot Male Age: 42 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 700 hours (50 hours)	Location Taucho, Tenerife, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Guru Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse in rocky, mountainous terrain, shortly after take off. Pilot was unable to fully regain control of the glider before impacting heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Last updated: 12 June 2025

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