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:

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).

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 10.01.2001	Pilot Male	Location Buachaille Etive Mor, UK Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Reports from the Scottish press of two PGs suffering collapses whilst flying in the Glencoe area.	Injury Pilot: Fractured leg

Date 15.12.2000	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P	Location Devils Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Axon Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider pilot heard shouting during a soaring flight he turned to look behind at the moment that a hang gliders wing tip clipped the back of his harness. Both pilots landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Date 01.10.2000	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP	Location Llantysellio, UK Wind Strength: 32-40 km/h Conditions: Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ADG Tigra Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Paraglider launched into very strong turbulent conditions and was immediately blown back over launch - he attempted to land but was dragged back over the hill.	Injury Pilot: Compression fracture of two vertebrae. sprained ankle

Date 04.09.2000	Pilot Unknown	Location Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary No details.	Injury Pilot: Possible fr collarbone

Date 21.07.1919	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 1000 hours (200 hours)	Location Thurstaston Wirral Country Park, Thurstaston, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota 2	Summary Jogger running across the site not looking where she was going, ran over paraglider lines & almost tripped whist the equipment was being laid out for preflight inspection. No injuries.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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