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).

All Wing Types Paraglider Flexwing Hang Glider Rigid Hang Glider Speedrider Speedflyer/Miniwing Powered PG Powered HG Other

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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 2455 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 10.04.2022	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 23 years 2000 hours (40 hours) 800 flights (20 flights)	Location Parlick, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsillon Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was stood beside glider and not in harness when a gust pulled the glider. A line caught pilots foot pulling the pilot over.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries Passenger: Unhurt
Date 10.04.2022	Pilot Male Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 3 hours	Location Rushup Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Koyot 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged descent and collided with a fence post on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 09.04.2022	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years	Location Bell Hill, Blandford Forum, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 8	Summary Pilot was approaching to land in gusty and windy conditions when his glider suffered an asymmetric collapse. The pilot was unable to recover before impacting heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 09.04.2022	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: AP	Location UK	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary During check pilot noticed that the lines holding the pod closed and the emergency parachute in place had frayed. They had frayed to the extent that they would no longer pass through the ceramic loops with ease. A break to the line could render the parachute unusable. The harness had 7 flight hours.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 06.04.2022	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 13 hours (2 hours) 25 flights (3 flights)	Location Babadag 1200m, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered accidental parachute deployment on launch. Handle was not checked prior to launch. Parachute has been repacked and checked and found to be satisfactory.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 40 hours (20 hours) 25 flights (15 flights)	Location Rush Up, Peak District, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot whilst completing a 360 exited and re-entered a thermal. Upon re-entering the left wing tip lost pressure and a spin was induced, contributing factor was likely too much brake applied during the turn. Wing re-inflated, dived and the pilot regained control and slope landed.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2022	Pilot Unknown	Location Whitewool, Hampshire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Five pilots were blown back over over a road to land in a field behind the site. the most extreme was over 300m back from the site. Pilots had been seen to not be penetrating wery much 30 mins earlier. There was a mix of wings flying from red-ribbon to EN D pilots.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 24.03.2022	Pilot Age: 49 Flying Experience: 11 years 150 hours (1 hour) (3 flights)	Location Blorenge, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ground handling pilot noticed that a speed bar line was looped through the emergency parachute deployment handle. This was recite prior to flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 200 hours (2 hours) 1000 flights (30 flights)	Location Darley Moor, Ashbourne, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot made low turn into finals resulting in a low spin and got foot caught in soft ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 21.03.2022	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 200 hours (5 hours) 400 flights (12 flights)	Location Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire Moors, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz z6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot caught foot on uneven ground while collapsing wing fracturing ankle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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