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A hot air balloon crash-landed in the southern Arizona desert Sunday, leaving four people dead and another person critically injured, police announced.
The balloon’s double burner failed while about 75 feet in the air, federal officials said. Passenger falls out of hot air balloon after it slams into SUV in Arizona, feds say Skip to main content
2023 Page hot-air balloon crash Page City Park, Arizona, USA: An Aerostar International Inc. X-8 hot air balloon crash-landed and hit a parked car after its burners failed to ignite during landing. A passenger was seriously injured when they fell out of the basket. [114] 0 1 14 January 2024: 2024 Eloy, AZ hot-air balloon crash Eloy, Arizona, USA
The Kubicek BB 85 Z balloon went down on Sunday in Eloy, about 65 miles (100 km) southeast of Phoenix, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement on Monday.
The Balloon Fiesta is a nine-day event occurring in the first full week of October, and has over 500 hot air balloons each year, far from its beginnings of merely 13 balloons in 1972. [1] The event is the largest balloon festival in the world, followed by the Grand Est Mondial Air in France, and the León International Balloon Festival in Mexico.
Hot air balloon festivals are held annually in many places throughout the year, allowing hot air balloons operators to gather- as well as for the general public- to participate in various activities.They can include races; evening "night glows", or "glowdeos" (in the US), in which balloons are fired while remaining tethered to the ground; and rides.
When the hot air balloon was at about 2,000 feet, it was "witnessed to begin to free fall straight down at an unknown high rate of speed, eventually striking the ground." Witnesses called 911, the ...
The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight in the world was performed in Paris, France, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, [1] in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. [2]