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 06.05.2017	Pilot Male Age: 34 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 5000 hours (500 hours) 5000 flights (600 flights)	Location Signal Hill, Cape Town, South Africa Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent, Rain, Snow	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sol Sonic Play 3D Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level and crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 01.05.2017	Pilot Male Age: 56 Rating: P Flying Experience: 31 years 250 hours (18 hours) 600 flights (40 flights)	Location Not applicable, Folkestone, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3	Summary During pre-flight inspection the pilot noticed that a brake line had been frayed by the metal swivel.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 29.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years 1 hour	Location Pilgrims farm, Woldingham, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Ascent	Summary Pilot collided with ridge shortly after take off.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 29.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 60 Flying Experience: 22 years 1500 hours (35 hours) 600 flights (40 flights)	Location Mere Rifle Range, Mere Wiltshire, UK Wind Strength: 30-35 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders GTO2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider on landing in strong winds. Pilot was dragged causing a concussion.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Head Injuries
Date 29.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 101 hours (30 hours) 212 flights (29 flights)	Location Beer head, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot entered spiral dive and misjudged remaining height before attemting to exit. Spiral dive had locked in and the pilot could not recover before colliding with cliff face at a shallow angle. The glider returned to normal flight and the pilot top landed.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 29.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 150 hours (30 hours) 400 flights (50 flights)	Location Madeira Paragliding, Arco de Calheta, Portugal Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Tequila 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While ridge soaring pilot noticed power lines directly in front. Pilot made tight turn away from the lines but struck them with his hand sustaining serious burns. Pilot was able to land safely using other hand.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 28.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years	Location Babadag 1700 m Take Off, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off into a thermal and ascended rapidly and off to one side. Pilot flew out of the thermal and descended towards a rocky area. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 27.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 68 Flying Experience: 7 years 36 flights (36 flights)	Location Bell Hill, Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student made a good approach to top landing but drifted towards parked cars. On attempting to control the wing on landing the student was dragged into one of the parked cars causing damage to the car.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 33 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 30 hours (6 hours) 54 flights (20 flights)	Location Babadag - Butterfly Valley, Oludeniz, Turkey Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Alpha 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed in the sea having failed to lose enough height on his final approach to beach landing.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 17 years 200 hours (40 hours) 600 flights (120 flights)	Location Frocester, Gloucestershire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Glider caught wing tip on tree branch swinging glider and pilot into the slope.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured

Last updated: 2 December 2024

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