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 2455 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 30.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 36 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had mid-air collision with another paraglider. Pilot's wing collapsed and he landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 29.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 7 years 23 hours (23 hours) 30 flights (30 flights)	Location High & Over, Alfriston, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot crashed in rotor turbulence behind the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 25.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 65 Flying Experience: 7 years 30 flights (30 flights)	Location Longstone Edge, Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Macpara Muse 1 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student tripped while running after a forward launch.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 25.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 67 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 26 years 111 hours (10 hours) 219 flights (21 flights)	Location Beer Head, Beer Head, East Devon, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Ion4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary In decreasing winds the pilot lost too much height to top land resulting in a downwind slope landing. Pilot attempted to run off speed but stumbled.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 24.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 157 hours	Location Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz Z 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched with slow airspeed and glider suffered a large asymmetric collapse. Pilot fell 20ft to road below take-off.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 24.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 61 Rating: P Flying Experience: 25 years 625 hours (40 hours) 1000 flights (60 flights)	Location Chalvet west, St Andre les Alpes, France Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Yeti 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary On launching the right leg strap buckle became undone and pilot could not refasten it inflight. Pilot decided to land immediately. On inspection of the flat plate buckle pilot decided it had not been correctly fastened and had not been noticed due to insufficient pre-flight check.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 100 hours (10 hours) 300 flights (30 flights)	Location Algodonales south east, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Attempting to avoid imminent rain, pilot opted to land upwind of the landing field. Pilot suspects he stalled the wing on approach but has not memory of the events.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Pelvis
Date 13.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: P Flying Experience: 26 years	Location Rybury, Alton barns ( closest village ), UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gradient Aspen 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered small asymmetric collapse having passed behind another paraglider. Collapse was over-controlled and glider entered a spin. Pilot was swung into the hill and was then dragged. The wind had gone off the slope and was gusting.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 13.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 68 Rating: EP Flying Experience: 9 years 1 hour	Location Swyre Hill, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary In focussing on getting his legs down for landing the student lost track of his altitude and flared too high, landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thorax
Date 12.09.2018	Pilot Male Age: 41 Flying Experience: 7 years 3 flights (3 flights)	Location Beddingham, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student became 'object fixated' on approach and caught his leg on the mud guard of a trailer.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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