WELLINGTON Fri Jan 6, 2012 5:22pm EST
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A popular air go up run hard directly into flames in addition to crashed in New Zealand in early stages Saturday, harming many 11 men and women on this phone inside the country's worst surroundings accident around above several decades.
Police said the balloon appeared to have caught shoot previous to crashing into farmland in close proximity to Carterton, in relation to 80 km (50 miles) northeast connected with Wellington on New Zealand's North Island.
"Sadly the pilot in addition to eight travellers onboard haven't survived," Wellington District Commander Superintendent Mike Rusbatch said.
The accident happened with calm, crystal clear and also warm weather in a place well-known for hot air flow ballooning.
"I couldn't imagine just what exactly I has been seeing. There were flames licking upward the side on the basket, right up the guy-ropes," David McKinlay, who seemed to be running his dog when he spotted this go up pick up fire, told state-run Television New Zealand.
When that flames attained the canopy, the particular go up plunged to the ground, they said.
"There was a big, longer pencil-like flame maybe something like 20 yards (65 feet) long, going into the yard at the terrible speed," McKinlay added.
The accident will be the New Zealand's most severe air conditioning devastation given that a new Antarctic sight-seeing airline ticket crashed into Mt Erebus in 1979, harming just about all 257 people on board.
(Reporting by way of Mantik Kusjanto along with Lincoln Feast ; Editing by Andrew Heavens )
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