A video shared on social media captured the moment a hot air balloon landed on a residential street in Bedford, United ...

Residents in Bedford, UK, witnessed a dramatic scene on Saturday, August 23, as a hot air balloon landed in the middle of a ...

Horrifying Footage Shows Hot Air Balloon Plummet to Ground first appeared on Parade on Jun 22, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 22, 2025, where it first appeared.

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.

According to witnesses, the hot air balloon seemed heavy and struggled to lift off before it caught fire and 8 people died.

The footage was captured in Vang Vieng, a town in the northwest region of Laos. Text overlaid on the video sets the tone, saying: "When your hot air balloon landing doesn't go quite as planned." ...

Guests are silhouetted as hot air balloons are lit during a night-glow to begin the 35th Thurston Classic Balloon Festival on the Allegheny College campus in Meadville on June 12, 2025.

Footage shared by local media showed billows of smoke coming from the balloon in flames as it hurtled towards the ground in Brazil on Saturday.

A hot-air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky on Saturday in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina, killing eight people, firefighters said.

At least eight people died after a hot air balloon caught fire mid-air, forcing passengers to jump out of the basket to avoid the flames.

A man died this week after falling from a hot air balloon that went up in flames during a festival in Mexico, according to authorities and news reports.