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 29.10.2016	Pilot Female Age: 39 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 70 hours	Location Ager, Catalonia, Spain Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Air Design Rise 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot lost control of the paraglider in close proximity to the hillside and impacted the ground sustaining fatal injuries.	Injury Pilot: Fatal, Internal Injuries
Date 22.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 57 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 15 hours (20 hours) 85 flights (35 flights)	Location Bo peep, Selmeston, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Yeti Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot attempted to top land close to a barbwire fence. Speedbar caught on fence then glider fell on fence.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 59 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 25 years	Location Villebois Lavallette, Dordogne, France	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Koch Winch Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary During a routine inspection of the weak link components of a twin drum Koch winch it was found that the aluminium cases that house the aluminium weak links had their ends burred over such that the link would not slide out of the housing. This rendered the weak link inoperative and the force required to break it would have been considerably more than the certified intended force.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 14.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 48 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years	Location 360, Bir, India Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Tala Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered an asymmetric collapse at low level while thermalling. Pilot was unable to regain control of the glider and deployed his emergency parachute. Parachute had insufficient height to deploy fully and pilot impacted rocks.	Injury Pilot: Fatal, Head Injuries
Date 10.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 10 years 5 hours (2 hours) 10 flights (5 flights)	Location Herne Bay, Herne Bay, Kent, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Buzz 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While coastal soaring the pilot was blown back into rotor turbulence by strengthening wind.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 09.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years 500 hours (7 hours) 700 flights (9 flights)	Location Mundsley, Norfolk, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was caught out by strengthening winds and was blown back into a village. While being blown back, pilot pushed off house chimney to avoid standing on roof before crashing through a telephone line and landing in conifers.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 02.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 51 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 35 years	Location Cow Close Fell, Yorkshire Dales, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Nova Tattoo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider while soaring in weak conditions. Pilot crashed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 02.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Oludeniz, Turkey	Wing Type Paraglider	Summary During routine kit inspection before start of SIV, reserve deployment failure identified. Damage to harness had most likely happened during accident the previous year. Reserve retaining flap had ripped and reserve had fallen through the hole making deployment impossible. Reserve set up and internal parts of the harness had not been inspected since the accident.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 01.10.2016	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 hours 36 flights	Location Not applicable, Lewes, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Not APPLICABLE	Summary On repacking parachute to new harness pilot found the chute would not deploy without pulling the velcro apart. Also had loose webbing to webbing connection.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.09.2016	Pilot Male Age: 55 Flying Experience: 9 years	Location Quatro Mojones, Algodonales, Spain Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Element 2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student lost balance as glider came up to one side. Student caught ankle on rock.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs

Last updated: 5 January 2025

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