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A video of the disaster that occurred on the web the day before in Egypt. In the vicinity of the Egyptian city, Luxor collapsed balloon (VIDEO) The cause of the catastrophe was the explosion of one from gas cylinders of a balloon that occurred when one of the workers, he tried to fix the cable fixing the ball on the ground. IN the result of uncontrolled fuel supply the ball instantly caught fire, took off to a height of more than three hundred meters, and then exploded and fell into sugarcane fields. Those on it people burned alive. Disaster video posted in Internet and distributed by many television channels, was made from neighboring balloon. The video shows that the disaster occurred very fast. According to eyewitnesses, only those who managed to survive decided to jump out of the basket of a burning ball – from a height of seven-story building.
In a basket of an aircraft that belonged to a local Egyptian Airship Balloon, there were 21 people – a pilot and 20 tourists. According to the latest information, the number of victims of the crash amounted to 19 people. The three who were on the ball – the manager a ball to the Egyptian and two British – managed to survive. Afterwards one of the tourists died, the condition of the other, received strong fractures, while stable. This is not the first incident involving hot air ballooning in egypt. In April 2008, seven tourists were hit by a similar balloon fall in Egypt. Also in the spring of 2009, 16 people were injured during pleasure flight when a balloon flew around an ancient Egyptian temple Luxor and touched the wires of telephone lines. Similar flights arranged for tourists to enjoy panoramic views of the surroundings with monuments of ancient history.
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