{"id":304612,"date":"2023-04-01T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/video-hot-air-balloon-catches-fire-mid-air-in-mexico-passengers-jump-off\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:18:00","slug":"video-hot-air-balloon-catches-fire-mid-air-in-mexico-passengers-jump-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/video-hot-air-balloon-catches-fire-mid-air-in-mexico-passengers-jump-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hot Air Balloon Catches Fire Mid-Air In Mexico, Passengers Jump Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Video: Hot Air Balloon Catches Fire Mid-Air In Mexico, Passengers Jump Off\" alt=\"Video: Hot Air Balloon Catches Fire Mid-Air In Mexico, Passengers Jump Off\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ndtvimg.com\/i\/2017-07\/hot-air-balloon-650_650x400_81499257578.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">A video posted on social media shows the balloon&#8217;s gondola on fire. (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Mexico City: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two people have died when a hot-air balloon flying over the famed Teotihuacan archeological site near Mexico City caught fire, the regional government said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The passengers jumped from the balloon,&#8221; the government of the state of Mexico said in a statement, adding that a child suffered burns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mexico &#x1f1f2;&#x1f1fd;<\/p>\n<p>! Breaking news!&#x1f6a8;&#x1f6a8;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 01, 2023, in the morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>a hot air balloon catches fire and collapses in Teotihuacan, 2 people are reportedly dead.<\/p>\n<p>The events occurred this morning in the vicinity of the Pyramid of the Sun and the area was cordoned off. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DlzJdv2oHH\">pic.twitter.com\/DlzJdv2oHH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lenar (@Lerpc75) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lerpc75\/status\/1642228555026186243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It identified the victims as a 39-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, without providing their names. It said the minor had suffered second-degree burns to the face as well as a fracture of the right femur.<\/p>\n<p>It did not say whether there were any other passengers on the balloon.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on social media shows the balloon&#8217;s gondola on fire, in a perfectly clear sky.<\/p>\n<p>Several tour operators offer balloon flights over Teotihuacan, some 45 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of Mexico City, for around $150.<\/p>\n<p>With its Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, and its Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan is a popular tourist destination, a surviving monument to the pre-Columbian period.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/mexico-two-die-when-hot-air-balloon-catches-fire-3913131\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A video posted on social media shows the balloon&#8217;s gondola on fire. (Representational) Mexico City: Two people have died when a hot-air balloon flying over the famed Teotihuacan archeological site near Mexico City caught fire, the regional government said Saturday. &#8220;The passengers jumped from the balloon,&#8221; the government of the state of Mexico said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[371480,371481,371482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}