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 2537 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 04.06.2001	Pilot Male Age: 60	Location Tollgate, UK Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Prima 30 Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student tore bicep muscle during forward launch .	Injury Pilot: Suspected torn bicep (l)
Date 04.06.2001	Pilot Male Age: 47	Location Melverley, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Sabre (L) Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Pilot failed to flare sufficiently on landing and fell over on landing.	Injury Pilot: Fractured (l) ankle
Date 20.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 24	Location Curium, Cyprus Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Reggae Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Student tried to pull himself into the harness seat by pulling on the A risers glider lost altitude pilot hit the ground.	Injury Pilot: Minor cuts to legs
Date 16.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 24	Location Tegelberg, Germany Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Student failed to follow instructions given over the radio and flew into an area known to be turbulent. Canopy suffered a 60% asymmetric collapse on the left wing the canopy turned through 180 degrees and the student impacted a tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: CP	Location Oludenize, Turkey Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Thermic	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus Launch Type: Foot (Forward)	Summary Pilot following radio instruction flew out to sea too far to return to shore. Realised too late that the instructions were meant for someone else.	Injury Unknown
Date 09.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 50	Location Audou, Crete Wind Strength: 0-8 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Futura 42 Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot misjudged glide angle was unable to reach landing field, forced to land in olive grove.	Injury Pilot: Fractured ankle.
Date 08.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P	Location Crimdon Dene, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Edel Saber (Medium) Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot noticed b & c risers slack. Landed and rectified the problem.	Injury Unknown
Date 05.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 39 Rating: CP	Location Chirk Airfield, UK Wind Strength: 8-16 km/h	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsillon 3 (Medium) Launch Type: Winch Tow	Summary Following a tow launch the pilot flew downwind to the landing area had insufficient height to make final turn into wind.	Injury Pilot: Double fracture of right tibia and fibula.
Date 05.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP	Location Reighton, UK Wind Strength: 24-32 km/h Conditions: Smooth/Steady	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Apco Fiesta Launch Type: Foot (Reverse)	Summary Pilot seen to be flying well behind the cliff edge. Canopy then seen to enter several severe manouevres before pilot impacted cliff top.	Injury Pilot: Fractured (r) tibia and fibula, (l) ankle, sternum and ribs on left side.
Date 05.05.2001	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP	Location Westward Ho, UK Wind Strength: 16-24 km/h Conditions: Variable	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird G Sport Launch Type: Foot (Assisted)	Summary Pilot became aware that the wind had picked up, could not penetrate forward resulting in him being blown back over the cliff top, cliiped roof of bungalow before crashing.	Injury Pilot: Sprained wrist

Last updated: 12 September 2025

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