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 18.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 21 Rating: P Flying Experience: 5 years 55 hours (20 hours) 500 flights (150 flights)	Location North eastaly slope, Woldingham, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Kibo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was lifted off the ground while ground handling. Pilot attempted to bottom land in switching winds and hit the ground while in mid turn, trying to land into wind.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 18.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 25 Rating: P Flying Experience: 7 years 500 hours 575 flights (75 flights)	Location Col de la Forclaz, Annecy, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off with a knot in the right side A, C and brake lines. Pilot could not release the knot so flew down to the landing field making only careful left turns. The knot came out on landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 23 Rating: P Flying Experience: 6 years 110 hours (30 hours) 70 flights (60 flights)	Location Kobala, Tolmin, Slovenia	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Base2lite Launch Type: Foot	Summary Whilst performing a spiral dive into a bottom landing field, the pilot noticed first stages of a blackout. The pilot was able to exit the spiral dive before total loss of vision and recovered and landed safely. Contributing factors were dehydration and tiredness.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 14.06.2022	Pilot Male	Location Parlick, Lancashire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Non-BHPA pilot crash landed while attempting to top land.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 14.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 30 hours (20 hours) 90 flights (60 flights)	Location Chamonix, Chamonix, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged height on approach to landing. On final turn into wind the pilot was too low. Overcompensation caused pendulum and pilot impacted boulder on landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 14.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 63 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 2620 hours (100 hours) 2544 flights (52 flights)	Location Kobala, Tolmin, Slovenia Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Very Strong Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Cure 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse and cascade in turbulent air. Parachute deployed but caught in glider. Pilot crash landed through trees.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 13.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 4 years 2 hours (1 hour) 30 flights (4 flights)	Location Woolacombe, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot turned in a thermal while ridge soaring. Pilot came out the thermal into sinking air and did not have room to complete the 360. In tightening the turn the pilot spun the glider and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 03.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 12 hours (1 hour) 128 flights (2 flights)	Location Whitewool, Hampshire, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Atlas Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed heavily from 2m when top landing, having flown behind ground handling pilots.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Cervical Spine
Date 02.06.2022	Pilot Male Rating: Unqualified	Location Canford Cliffs, Poole, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BDG Punk Launch Type: Foot	Summary Unqualified non-BHPA person was being instructed by unqualified friend in windy conditions. Pilot attempted 360 degree turn at low level and spun glider. Pilot released controls and the glider dived into the beach.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 02.06.2022	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 8 years 60 hours (5 hours) 86 flights (4 flights)	Location Windbank, Hawkswick, North Yorkshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: U Turn Inifinity 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was attempting to ridge soar but the wind was light. Pilot slope landed but hit hand on a rock.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Last updated: 19 May 2025

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