Hot air balloon News

Video: Hot air balloon wedding crashes into San Diego yard

San Diego - A wedding ceremony taking place on a hot air balloon made an emergency crash landing in a San Diego yard after being caught by a wind gust.

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Video: Mid air marriage proposal moments after solar eclipse

Cairns - The magic of witnessing a total solar eclipse was made all the more special when one man used the rare opportunity as the backdrop for a marriage proposal.

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Man runs half-marathon while flying in a hot air balloon

An Australian marathon runner has taken training to new heights as he completed a half-marathon while traveling in a hot air balloon above Australia.

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Pilot in fatal balloon crash had cannabis in system

A toxicology test has revealed the pilot of the balloon that crashed, killing 11 people in New Zealand, may have been high –– literally.

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Video: Toronto teens launch Lego man into space

Toronto - Two Canadian teenagers found themselves in the media spotlight after they launched a Lego man attached to a weather balloon nearly into space, capturing amazing images from 80,000 feet above Earth.

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Ron Paul hot air balloon deflated after traffic chaos

A publicity stunt arranged by Ron Paul supporters brought traffic to a halt earlier this week, when a hot air balloon trailing the candidates name, had to be deflated.

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11 die in hot air balloon tragedy in New Zealand

Wellington - Ten passengers and an experienced pilot died when their hot air balloon caught alight and plummeted to the ground near the town of Carterton, on New Zealand's North Island.

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9-year-old becomes youngest person to fly solo in hot air balloon

Tome - Bobby Bradley, a 9-year-old boy from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has become the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in a hot air balloon.

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Two killed as hot air balloon slams into bowls club in Somerset

Midsomer Norton - Two men have died when their hot air balloon crashed onto a bowling green in the west England county of Somerset. An air crash investigation team are currently looking at the circumstances of the incident to establish how and why the balloon crashed.

In the Media by Kev Hedges

Canadian Girl Dies In Hot-Air Balloon

OTTAWA (AP) — A hot-air balloon caught fire and crashed after hitting a power line, killing a 15-year-old girl and critically injuring her father, a professional balloon pilot who was at the controls. Julie Boileau, of Ottawa, was killed Saturday n..

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