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 2521 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 08.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: P Flying Experience: 27 years 500 hours (3 hours) 500 flights (2 flights)	Location Milk Hill White Horse, Devizes, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Delta Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot made 360 degree turn in front of hill in weak lift. Glider began to spin then stalled and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 08.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 65 Rating: P Flying Experience: 12 years 110 hours (15 hours) 74 flights (20 flights)	Location Ballard down, Swanage, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent, Front Influence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Epsilon 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered cravat while coastal soaring and lost height in recovering. Pilot landed in the sea but was able to swim to a cave and recover kit. Pilot rescued by RNLI.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 07.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 11 years 17 hours (3 hours) 40 flights (8 flights)	Location Mount subasio, Perugia, Italy Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Niviuk Hook Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot had almost taken off but sat back in harness before the glider was fully flying. Pilot collided with slope fracturing his leg.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 06.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 46 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 8 years (30 flights)	Location Beddingham, Lewes, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo2 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot sat in harness too soon while launching. Pilot attempted to run but swung forward into the ground.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 02.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 57 Flying Experience: 9 years 1 hour (1 hour) 17 flights (17 flights)	Location Ditchling Beacon, Brighton, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Pro Design Accura Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student practising low hop landed with outstretched legs despite being warned about this on previous flight.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 02.04.2017	Pilot Male Age: 55 Rating: P Flying Experience: 24 years 420 hours (15 hours)	Location Devil's Dyke, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Chili 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Soaring close to slope in light conditions. Pilot failed to have feet out of harness, slope landed too fast and caught right hand against grassy slope, breaking bone in wrist.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
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

Last updated: 12 August 2025

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