Hot air balloon collides with power lines

Aviation authorities have still not introduced random drug and alcohol tests for hot air balloons pilots two years after one of the world's worst balloon disasters in New Zealand. Eleven people died on January 7, 2012 when a hot air balloon on a ...

Hot air balloon passengers injured in a crash over the weekend in Massachusetts have been released from a hospital. The Federal Aviation Administration says two people stayed overnight at the hospital for treatment after the balloon crashed ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed May 9 in Virginia, killing all three on board, attempted to gain altitude before the balloon hit power lines and caught fire, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary ...

at 9:45 am An Albuquerque man was killed in a hot air balloon crash in Pennsylvania. Jeffrey Hooten, 47, died while landing the balloon in East Pikeland on Sunday morning. Multiple news reports said Hooten was the pilot and he fell from the ...

A second body was recovered from the crash of a hot air balloon carrying three people that drifted into a power line and burst into flames in front of hundreds of horrified spectators. More than 100 searchers were called in to scour the woods and fields of ...

A University of Richmond women's basketball team staff member was one of three occupants on a hot air balloon that drifted into a power line, burst into flames and crashed in Virginia, her family said Saturday. The body of Natalie Lewis has not been found, ...

After the horrible tragedy of the recent balloon disaster in Virginia [ Balloon crash devastates Richmond basketball team , front page, May 11], how could Tom Toles have drawn, or The Post have allowed the publication of, the May 15 editorial ...

(CNN) -- A hot air balloon that crashed and killed three people left propane tanks and a fire extinguisher along a 1.75-mile debris path after striking power lines and catching fire, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Tuesday. The ...

It's a bird… it's a plane… it's a crashing plane, quick, call for help! That was apparently the narrative in New Zealand on Friday as one of Google's Project Loon hot air balloons went down in the sea near the lower South Island. Emergency ...