Eight dead and 13 injured after hot air balloon crashes in Brazil - Miraculously 13 people survived after hot-air balloon caught fire and plummeted from sky

Footage shared by local media showed billows of smoke coming from the balloon in flames as it hurtled towards the ground in Brazil on Saturday.

The hot air balloon has a capacity to carry a maximum of 24 tourists at a time for a price of US$ 102 per passenger for a 45 minutes ride. During the fateful ride, 21 tourists boarded the hot air balloon.