Four people were killed and one critically injured when a hot air balloon crashed in Arizona on Sunday, Jan. 14. The tragic incident happened at approximately 7:50 a.m. in a desert area in Eloy, a small town with a population just over 15,000, and about 65 miles northwest of Phoenix known as “the skydiving capital of the world.” The cause of the crash was not immediately known. The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration …
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The U.S. military is tracking a mysterious balloon that flew over American soil, but it’s not clear what it is or whom it belongs to, according to three U.S. officials. The object flew across portions of Hawaii but did not go over any sensitive areas, the officials said. The U.S. military has been tracking it since late last week and has determined that it poses no threat to aerial traffic or national security and is not communicating signals, …
Three people have died after a small plane crashed into a residential building in the German city of Wesel, around 35 miles north of Dusseldorf, on Saturday afternoon. Police said the roof of the apartment building caught fire after the microlight plane crashed into it. Witnesses told local media that they saw the aircraft collide with a hot-air balloon shortly before the crash, which also injured a child. The injured child is thought to have been …