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 2542 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 17.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: P Flying Experience: 40 years 3000 hours (50 hours) 600 flights (20 flights)	Location Bear Down, Dartmoor, Devon, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged a 360 and collided with the hill.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 13.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 180 hours (6 hours) 300 flights (12 flights)	Location Milk Hill / White Horse, Milk Hill, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot lost control of glider having kited wing back up slope then attempted reverse launch. On launching the pilot discovered a cravat on one wingtip resulting in loss of control.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 12.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 52 Flying Experience: 8 years 3 hours (3 hours) 40 flights (40 flights)	Location Blaenavon, Abergavenny, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot under training on his final task of qualification decided without warning to perform a 360 close to the hill in the lift. fell out of the lift and impacted the top of the hill downwind.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 12.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 1 hour (1 hour) 11 flights (11 flights)	Location Bo Peep, Bo Peep, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged wind on top landing and caught barbwire fence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 70 Rating: P Flying Experience: 50 years 1000 hours (10 hours) 2500 flights (25 flights)	Location Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Pi Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot launched but glider did not come up straight as expected. Pilot aborted launch and discovered large knot in lower cascade.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2017	Pilot Female Age: 45 5 flights (5 flights)	Location Kennel Farm, Surrey, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Merlin Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Student fell on outstretched hand on landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 10.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 50 Flying Experience: 38 years 5000 hours (150 hours) 10000 flights (170 flights)	Location Walla crag, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Magnum Launch Type: Foot	Summary Tandem pilot was executing a cross-slope launch when the glider tip caught a tree. Pilot and passenger became airborne before pilot was able to mush glider to the ground landing in a bush.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries Passenger: Minor Injuries Feet, Legs
Date 08.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 16 hours (13 hours) 30 flights (26 flights)	Location Dodd Fell, Skipton, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova ION 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at low level, possibly due to turbulence from a wall and lee rotor.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 06.07.2017	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: AP	Location Slieau Curn, Kirk Michael, Isle Of Man Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: ITV Turquoise Launch Type: Foot	Summary Whilst launching in light winds the passengers footwear (trainers) came off due to the pilots feet catching the passengers heels on the take off run. The passenger stopped running and during the subsequent fall he sustained the minor injuries.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Minor Injuries
Date 26.06.2017	Pilot Male Age: 37 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years 120 hours (12 hours) 200 flights (18 flights)	Location Barton on sea, Barton on sea, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mentor 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse while performing wing overs. Pilot crashed into hillside having drifted back into an area of turbulence.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Last updated: 13 November 2025

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