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 02.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 38 years 3500 hours (47 hours) (52 flights)	Location Bradwell Edge, High Peak, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot narrowly missed mid-air collision while ridge soaring. Hang glider coming from opposite direction suddenly began turning in a thermal without first clearing the space.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 27 Rating: Supervised IPPI-3 Flying Experience: 9 years 7 hours (1 hour) 20 flights (1 flight)	Location Sopot chair lift launch, Sopot, Bulgaria Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 7 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot made error while attempting 'Big ears'. Pilot induced frontal collapse which recovered with a cravat which wound into a spiral dive. Pilot was able to deploy his parachute but could not pull in his glider. Pilot landed in small trees uninjured.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 28.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 5 hours (2 hours) 55 flights (15 flights)	Location Garmisch, Garmisch, Germany Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Strong, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: UP Makalu 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by sink conditions and made emergency landing in tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 27.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 33 years 2200 hours (30 hours) 10000 flights (100 flights)	Location Megget, Scottish Borders, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Mentor 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Evening soaring in light wind and weak thermals on steep grassy slope. Pilot misjudged distance from hill (possibly affected by strong low sun behind hill, with slope in deep shade ) and commenced 360 turn. Insufficient clearance to complete turn and impacted hill at a shallow angle.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 26.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 20 years 150 hours (15 hours) 300 flights (19 flights)	Location Matalascanas., Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot turned into wind on top landing but used excessive control input and spun glider landing heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 25.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: P Flying Experience: 20 years 500 hours (1 hour) 1000 flights (2 flights)	Location Parlick, Chipping, Lancs, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land as the wind had dropped off while he was ridge soaring. Pilot had insufficient height and collided with the hill.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 13.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 19 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 48 hours (22 hours) 300 flights (125 flights)	Location Rybury, Near Pewsey, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo1 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched with speed system twisted and applied 50%. Pilot was able to bottom land safely. Speedbar had come away from velcro holder.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 36 years 900 hours (15 hours) (30 flights)	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Omega 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was ridge soaring when hang glider took off into his path. Pilot was boxed in by HG pilot, forcing him into turbulent area and narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 13.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: P Flying Experience: 22 years 435 hours (30 hours) 1200 flights (50 flights)	Location Devils Dyke, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot continued to slope soar in weak conditions hoping to find lifting air but without success. Pilot failed to clear tree line and landed in the trees.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 11.03.2017	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 25 hours (10 hours) 90 flights (2 flights)	Location Meall a' Bhuachaille, Aviemore, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Geo 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot aborted launch in breezy conditions having noticed his brake was twisted. The glider came down 'nose first'. On relaunching the pilot did not carry out a pre-flight check and was lifted off the ground with a full twist in his risers. Pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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