Four traveled with the hot air balloon, three people were able to jump, but suffered severe burns.

A hot air balloon caught fire and crashed between Vál and Kajászó on Saturday afternoon, the Fejér County Directorate of Disaster Management said. It turned out that the hot air balloon caught fire during takeoff, three of them jumped from the rising basket, one man missed, they found him near the crashed hot air balloon. The county spokesman did not comment on the condition of the injured.

Later, the police revealed that one person died in the accident. Pál Győrfi, a spokesman for the National Ambulance Service, said late at night that a man and two women were injured in the accident, 20-25 percent of the surface of their body suffered second and third degree burns and were transferred to Győr, Székesfehérvár and the Military Hospital.

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