Going to hot air balloon rides, 17 of tourists in Florida, tourists do not even suspect what a dangerous adventure of waiting. The aircraft made an unplanned landing in the retention pond full of alligators. By a happy coincidence, passengers managed to get out alive from this mess.
The incident occurred on Monday near the amusement Park Disney world in Orlando. Around 8 a.m. the pilot Balloon Rides Orlando was trying to land in a field near the road Floridas turnpike, but a sudden gust of wind carried the balloon in the direction of line of elektroperedachi. To avoid a fatal collision, were immediately landed in the pond.
This hot air balloon carrying 17 people landed in a gator-infested pond near Disney World https://t.co/5i1IxMrDOA pic.twitter.com/0TKj60feUC
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Passengers were saved by the fact that the basket stood in the water vertically, otherwise they hardly would have avoided a meeting with the predatory inhabitants of the pond. Rescuers had to work about an hour to get to the shore of the accident victims. In the end of dangerous traps rescued the entire company, consisting of 10 children and 7 adults. The only person injured during the emergency, was 7-year-old boy swallowed dirty water from the pond. All the others got a fright.
«It was really scary,» — says a tourist from Denmark Sebastian Vesterby, «It’s incredible luck that nobody was seriously hurt.»
At the moment the incident is investigated by the civil aviation authority. According to the owner of Orlando Balloon Rides Keita Fierce, a balloon operated by an experienced pilot.
«He did everything he could to avoid much of the turn of events, We understand that to passengers it was an unusual and frightening experience, but we believe that the decision of the pilot was correct,» said Fiers.
