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 2452 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 27.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years	Location Treak Cliff, Castleton Derbyshire, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed in a tree attempting to avoid power lines having been unable to penetrate in strong conditions.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 47 Flying Experience: 8 years 5 hours (4 hours) 50 flights (40 flights)	Location Skiddaw, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Ion 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student on final approach to land in field, came in too high in nil wind and put in a hard turn just before landing as was worried he was running out of room. Glider swung towards ground as pilot flared hard, pilots arm hit ground fully outstretched during flair resulting in injury to wrist.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 23.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 300 hours (30 hours)	Location Hundred House, Wales, UK Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while turning into final approach. Pilot landed heavily on one leg.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 23.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour)	Location Mount Caburn, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot crash landed in a deep water ditch sustaining injuries to his legs. Pilot was rescued by other pilots as he was in danger of drowning.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 19.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: P Flying Experience: 15 years 195 hours (11 hours) 616 flights (25 flights)	Location Montmin, Annecy, France Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off and encountered stronger than expected head wind. Pilot was then unable to reach intended landing fields resulting in an unplanned landing. Pilot turned into wind too late and collided with slope.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 18.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 61 Flying Experience: 29 years 250 hours	Location Forclaz, Annecy, France Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse shortly after launching. The glider turned 180 degrees with no obvious pilot input and crashed into the hillside.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 15.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 6 years 14 hours (14 hours) 17 flights (14 flights)	Location Mount Caburn, Glynde, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Koyot 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had near miss with another paraglider. The other paraglider suffered a collapse and landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt, Cervical Spine
Date 13.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 54 Rating: IPPI 4	Location Mount Caburn sussex, Lewis, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot fell while ground handling.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 13.06.2018	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 23 years 90 hours (12 hours) 250 flights (21 flights)	Location Newhaven Cliffs, Newhaven, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider while attempting to launch in breezy conditions. Pilot was dragged into another glider that was waiting to launch.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 10.06.2018	Pilot Female Age: 36 Flying Experience: 1 hour (1 hour) 16 flights	Location Swanborough, Swanborough, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Elememt 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Whist ground-handling in a very light wind, the student was picked up by a small dust devil/thermal. She went up about 1.5m and then landed on her side hitting her head on the ground.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries

Last updated: 2 December 2024

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