Hot air balloon crashes in Texas - all 16 on board killed

A hot air balloon flight, organized by the Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides company, crashed with at least 16 people on board in Texas and, as per officials, there are no survivors. US investigators say that the basket portion of the balloon caught fire before the craft came down in a field near the city of Lockhart, located some 30 miles (50 km) south of Austin.
It seems there are massive power lines that are above the place where police tape is marked off.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 31 July 2016.

It is believed that the flight encountered difficulties about halfway through the journey and, the company's chief pilot, Skip Nichols, is one of those who was killed in the crash. This accident is likely to be one of the deadliest hot air balloon crashes on record. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said there was a "significant loss of life".
The authorities are facing difficulties with identification of the victims because, for such rides, people could just walk up and buy a ticket, unlike an airplane, which would have a list of names and details of passengers. Incidentally, three years ago, 19 people - many of them tourists - lost their lives after a hot air balloon came down after a mid-air explosion in Egypt.


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