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 2537 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 29.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 32 Rating: P Flying Experience: 13 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: 9 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: 8 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: 13 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: 18 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
Date 26.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: P Flying Experience: 11 years 70 hours (24 hours) 200 flights (35 flights)	Location White mountain, Moneyneany, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence, Rain, Snow	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot was scratching close to the slope and did not notice a change in the wind direction. This resulted in a fast downwind leg and the pilot struck his foot on rocks in sinking air.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs
Date 19.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 31 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 22 years 1500 hours (12 hours) 1500 flights (4 flights)	Location Pen y Fan, Powys, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone LM6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot noticed that chest strap was undone on LHS of harness 3.5 hours into a closed circuit cross country flight. Upon noticing, pilot flew into calm air and was able to connect the harness strap. The glider had handled normally during the flight until that point. The pilot continued the flight and landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 18.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 18 years 800 hours (4 hours) 600 flights (5 flights)	Location Back of Ecton, Derbyshire (nr Ashbourne), UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions:, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Peak 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot spun glider making tight turns on approach to landing.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Lumbar Spine
Date 17.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 41 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 230 hours (40 hours) 250 flights (50 flights)	Location Westbury Bratton Camp, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: BGD Cure Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot applies excessive control input while turning into wind for a landing. Pilot spun glider at low level but landed safely.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 17.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 47 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 5 hours (1 hour) 32 flights (15 flights)	Location Barton Aerodrome, Manchester, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Sky Paragliders Atis Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot noticed frayed webbing between harness and Charly tow release while packing away.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 13 September 2025

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