A hot-air balloon crash in Santa Catarina, Brazil, killed eight people after catching fire mid-flight, with 13 survivors, including the pilot, who were hospitalized with unknown injuries.

A hot air balloon trip in Brazil turned into tragedy Saturday after it caught fire midair and tumbled from the sky, killing eight people on its way down.

A hot-air balloon carrying 21 people in Brazil caught fire Saturday morning and crashed, killing at least eight people, Santa Catarina’s military fire brigade said.. The crash happened in Santa ...

In the United States alone, there have been 495 hot-air balloon accidents from 1964 through 1995, according to data shared by Pubmed.gov. From 2000 to 2011, 164 balloon crashes were reported. From ...

He said 21 people were on board; the other 13 survived. Video posted to social media shows a hot air balloon catching fire while in the sky. The balloon then deflates and falls to the ground.

The balloon is seen in video gliding along a sunny, bright blue sky when the desperate man, just a black dot from the vast distance, lets go and plummets many feet to Earth.

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- Hot air balloon's about as simple as you can get. You fill a large envelope, what we call the envelope, which is the balloon sitting above us.