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 2493 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 22.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 66 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 13 years	Location Sarangkot, Pokhara, Nepal Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Swing Arcus 6 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot landed in a tree then fell while attempting to climb down.	Injury Pilot: Fatal, Internal Injuries
Date 21.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 50 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 9 years 20 hours (15 hours) 35 flights (30 flights)	Location Blease Fell, Keswick, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Airwave Sport 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary While on approach to landing the pilot decided to land in a field adjacent to the landing field because of the close proximity of other landing pilots. Pilot was aware of the power line running parallel to the field but did not see the line running across the field. Glider struck line which snapped and the pilot fell to the ground.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 21.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 19 years 183 hours (16 hours) 246 flights (27 flights)	Location Mercury, Hampshire, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Bruce Goldsmith Design Dual Launch Type: Foot	Summary Tandem pilot initiated landing flare but then let up causing a slight pendulum. Subsequent landing was heavier than usual, compounded by hard, frozen ground in landing area.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Feet, Legs Passenger: Unhurt
Date 04.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 43 Rating: P Flying Experience: 14 years 800 hours (50 hours) 1000 flights (50 flights)	Location Whiterocks, Portrush, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Trickster Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot, experienced in mini wings, was flying an acro wing for the first time at local dunes. After a period of familiarisation he began to make more aggressive turns. During one turn the pilot applied an excessive amount of control causing the wing to collapse. The wing recovered but had lost significant height and the pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Feet, Legs
Date 04.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 21 years 507 hours (23 hours) 1048 flights (109 flights)	Location Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance BiBeta 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot armed quickouts prior to tandem inflation in strong conditions to enable rapid release if necessary. Pilot intended to disarm prior to actual launch. Pilot forgot to disarm on launch but did so a few minutes into the flight.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 02.01.2017	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: AP Flying Experience: 17 years 1300 hours (100 hours)	Location Bratton Camp, Westbury, UK Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Triple Seven Queen Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot narrowly avoided mid-air collision with another pilot who appeared not to know what they were doing. It turned out that the pilot, who had no BHPA rating, was being coached by two other pilots.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 31.12.2016	Pilot Male Age: 45 Rating: Pilot (tandem) Flying Experience: 29 years 340 hours (40 hours)	Location Dunstable Downs, Dunstable, UK	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Bi-Beta 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot armed quickouts prior to tandem flight in breezy conditions with damp grass under foot and close to hedge, road and trees. Pilot intended to disarm as soon as in safe flight. On attempting to disarm the pilot's finger slipped and hit the release button. Pilot was able to push insert back into place and disarm.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt Passenger: Unhurt
Date 22.12.2016	Pilot Male Age: 19 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 12 years 45 hours (27 hours) 300 flights (150 flights)	Location Milk Hill, Near Alton Priors, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Independence Geronimo Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot misjudged weather and made the incorrect decision to land at the top of the hill. Due to the wind strength the pilot decided to land in the field behind take off but had insufficient height and landed on a fence damaging the wing/harnesses but otherwise unhurt.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 16.12.2016	Pilot Male Age: 38 Rating: P Flying Experience: 16 years 202 hours (62 hours) 297 flights (46 flights)	Location Slimbridge sports field, Slimbridge, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Dudek Hadron XX Launch Type: Foot	Summary While making 'dry run' approach in low light conditions, the pilot failed to see power lines that were partially hidden along a line of trees surrounding the chosen field. Pilot struck the power lines and sustained minor injuries.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 21.11.2016	Pilot Male Age: 60 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 15 years 60 hours (30 hours)	Location Nigels, Aglou / Mirleft, Morocco Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions:, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Gin Gliders Atlas XA Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot decided to abort launch at the very last moment, by full application of control handles in order to stall wing. Could not stop and fell from front of the launch approx 5ft onto mountainside. Was assisted in collecting wing and climbing back onto launch.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries

Last updated: 14 May 2025

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