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On the afternoon of September 5, he lit and crashed a hot air balloon in Val. Three people jumped as they fell, while the fourth man crashed along with the basket. He did not survive the accident. According to Blikk, the victim was a 59-year-old woman, her husband watching helplessly at the death of his wife.
There were three women on board with the pilot. Hajnalka, 59, the subsequent victim, received the balloon ride for her birthday from her husband, Blikk writes. The man watched from the ground as the burning balloon pulled his wife and then crashed helplessly.
There were several eyewitnesses to the accident who were working on nearby land. They rushed to help those in trouble immediately, but the 59-year-old could no longer be rescued.
György Hoppár, president of the Váli Civil Guard, observed the tragedy from a few hundred meters away and also participated in the rescue.
“My daughter and my grandchildren were playing in the garden, they are always happy to see the hot air balloons, we saw more on Saturday. I was already gray when my daughter ran in:
Dad, that hot air balloon is on fire!
The Scream. The vehicle was between 150 and 200 meters high, it was burned and objects slipped, “the bodyguard told Blikk. The man immediately called his companions and left by car to help.
“There were four in the balloon basket, three passengers in addition to the pilot. The balloon was already on fire when it hit the ground, both the passengers and the pilot were burned, trying to jump injured. All three of them made it, but not a single lady, and when the balloon suddenly became lighter, it immediately rose back into the air. And there it fell into pieces, ”she said.
The victim’s husband saw the tragedy up close.
He gave the sunset air tour as a gift to his wife for her birthday. He experienced terrible moments when he saw the fiery balloon rise with the burned woman. Civil guards and rescue workers were in a chain of struggle at dusk to search for the tragically destined woman.
after an hour and a half of searching, he was found dead, completely burned,
there was a gas cylinder next to it, Blikk writes.
Norbert Mészáros, secretary general of the Hungarian Balloon Association, told the newspaper that they started flying with the pilot more than twenty years ago, they flew together several times.
The pilot is a highly trained and experienced professional. He’s pretty sure he’s done everything he can to put out the fire and get his passengers safely to the ground.
– He said.
According to the expert, it was a smaller basket, with four people in an area of just one square meter and 3-4 pieces of 23-pound gas cylinders next to it.
There may have been a leak. Although pilots are trained to deal with emergencies, it may not have been possible to stop this with the fire extinguisher.
– He said.
Blikk knows that the pilot was taken to intensive care after the accident, but he left yesterday.
his condition is stable.
The police have prosecuted an unknown perpetrator for endangering fatal aviation. According to the newspaper, yesterday the hot air balloon flights continued, without imposing restrictions.
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