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 2453 entries for paraglider wings

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Date	Pilot	Location	Wing Type	Summary	Injury
Incident Reports
Date 23.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 40 Rating: P Flying Experience: 200 hours (30 hours) 200 flights (10 flights)	Location Rybury, Pewsey, UK Wind Strength: 5-10 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Sigma 8 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Immediately after taking off the pilot put his feet into his pod and one of the pod support strings snapped. Pilot top landed and made repair.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 23.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 53 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years 1 flight (1 flight)	Location Eype, Bridport Dorset, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Firebird Ignition Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot took off without adequate pre-flight check and took off in front of approaching pilot.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 22.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 64 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 10 years	Location Branscombe, East Devon, UK Wind Strength: 20-25 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Unknown Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot applied excessive control on final approach to top landing. Glider stalled at approx 6m and pilot landed heavily.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 19.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 49 Flying Experience: 8 years 30 flights (30 flights)	Location High and Over, Seaford, UK Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Calm, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 5 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Student had been briefed for soaring and slope landing. After take-off, he turned right then weight shifted hard right and steered towards the hill. He was instructed to turn out from the hill (over the radio), but continued to fly towards the hill and connected, putting his hand out to stop himself.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 18.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 415 hours (40 hours) 1200 flights (50 flights)	Location La Lastra, Piedrahita, Spain Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Rush 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse at 60m while attempting to land in gusty, strong wind conditions. Pilot was blown back and landed between trees.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries
Date 17.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 62 Rating: P Flying Experience: 23 years 1500 hours (50 hours) 1000 flights (30 flights)	Location Manteigas, Manteigas, Portugal Wind Strength: 15-20 km/h Conditions: Strong, Strong Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Advance Iota Launch Type: Foot	Summary Pilot failed to carry out adequate pre-flight-check and launched with tangled lines. Glider turned quickly to right and pilot struck head on rocks and tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt
Date 12.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 52 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 14 years 70 hours (9 hours) 205 flights (28 flights)	Location Tailbridge, Cumbria, Kirkby Stephen, UK Wind Strength: 25-30 km/h Conditions: Calm, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mojo 3 Launch Type: Foot	Summary A pilot flying on a site he had flown on numerous previous occasions encountered unexpected sinking air when making a top landing in a north westerly wind, and impacted the ground hard, causing injury.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 12.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 49 Rating: P Flying Experience: 29 years 223 hours (9 hours) 1691 flights (70 flights)	Location Paluknys tow field, Paluknys, Vilnius, Lithuania Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Calm, Not Turbulent	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Skywalk Mescal 3 Launch Type: Winch/vehicle Tow	Summary Pilot was under tow is slight crosswind. While applying corrective control the tension increased causing the glider to stall and rotate. Glider dived towards the ground, still under tension. Eventually tension was released and the glider regained near level flight. Pilot landed heavily. No weak link in system.	Injury Pilot: Minor Injuries, Hands, Arms, Shoulder
Date 10.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: CP Flying Experience: 20 years 150 hours	Location Chabre, Laragne Monteglin, France Wind Strength: 10-15 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Light Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Swift 4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot left the turn into wind late and landed approx 8m from a main road and parallel to it. Pilot suffered asymmetric collapse on finals. Turbulence from passing traffic could have been a contributing factor.	Injury Pilot: Seriously Injured
Date 06.07.2016	Pilot Male Age: 44 Rating: P Flying Experience: 400 hours (40 hours)	Location Frocester, Stroud, UK Wind Strength: 0-5 km/h Conditions: Moderate, Moderate Turbulence	Wing Type Paraglider Wing: Ozone Mantra M4 Launch Type: Foot	Summary The pilot was flying in light thermic conditions and encountered sinking air over an area of trees. The pilot collided with a tree and escaped unhurt as he was restrained from hitting the ground by the wing coming to rest in the tree.	Injury Pilot: Unhurt

Last updated: 12 December 2024

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