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:

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• Paraglider
• Flexwing Hang Glider
• Rigid Hang Glider
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• Powered PG
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• 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 10.07.2018	Pilot Female Rating: CP	Location Pontlottyn, Heads of the Valleys/ Merthyr Tydfil, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot appeared to enter spiral dive while attempting to thermal. Glider then suffered an asymmetric collapse and pilot crashed onto the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 10.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 39 5 flights (5 flights)	Location Hay Bluff (NE), Hay-on-Wye, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student allowed glider to go off to one side while attempting a reverse launch. Student was pulled to the side and stepped awkwardly on a tussock damaging his ankle.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 10.07.2018	Pilot Female Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 14 hours (10 hours) 45 flights (30 flights)	Location Pontlottyn, Pontlottyn, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had been turning 360 in a thermal above the hill but not gaining enough height to continue. On pulling forwards to fly to the front of the hill again pilot inputed to turn left at the front of the hill with too much brake causing the glider to spin and resulting in the pilot impacting with the brow of the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Thoracic Spine
Date 09.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 3 hours 7 flights (2 flights)	Location Hay Bluff, Wales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged distance from the ridge and failed to turn away resulting in pilot colliding with the ridge.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 07.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 69 Rating: Trainee Flying Experience: 7 years (1 hour)	Location Mount Caburn Airworks training field, Glynde, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot	Summary Glider went offline to the left while student was practising forward launches. Student was pulled over onto left side causing damage to shoulder.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 06.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 61 2 flights	Location Darley Moor Airfield, Ashbourne, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Atom3 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Day one student on third flight failed to keep legs down and did not flare on landing.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Lumbar Spine
Date 02.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 58 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 220 hours (65 hours) 350 flights (90 flights)	Location Laragne, Gap, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence, Leeside	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Mac Para Eden 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot accidentally flew leeside was was blown over village in turbulent air. Pilot landed hard and fast.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 01.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 10 hours (5 hours) 30 flights (8 flights)	Location Basano Del Grappa, Basano Del Grappa, Italy Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic	Summary Pilot landed down wind at speed having changed final approach direction to avoid construction crane.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 01.07.2018	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 10 hours	Location Paradiso, Bassano, Italy Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Epic Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged approach and turned downwind landing at speed into trees.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 30.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 55 Flying Experience: 7 years 6 flights	Location Loose Bottom, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Wave Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student pilot slowed to minimum sink speed on approach as instructed, but failed to flare until after landing. Later conversation with student revealed only 10% vision in one eye. (i.e. poor binocular vision.)	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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