Date:	Saturday 25 June 2011
Time:	05:02 LT
Type:	Wörner NL-1000/STU
Owner/operator:	Ballongruppe Rapperswil
Registration:	HB-QHJ
MSN:	1075
Year of manufacture:	2002
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Fisibach/AG -   Switzerland
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Bad Zurzach - offshore
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	BFU Switz.
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The balloon lost his gas at an altitude of 2500m and began to sink very fast. HB-QHJ crashed with a high vertical speed to the ground and damaged the roof of a house.

One passenger was killed, the pilot and the other passenger received minor injuries.

https://www.blick.ch/sport/eishockey/nla/blog-hollensteins-puls-ist-auf-160-id17573.html
http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2011/06/25/Schweiz/AG-Ein-Todesopfer-nach-Gasballon-Absturz

http://ballonfrieden.freeflux.net/files/hb-qhj.jpg (photo)
http://www.bfu.admin.ch/common/pdf/HB-QHJ_2011.pdf

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

8 August 2002

HB-QHJ

Ballonspotgruppe Rapperswil

0

Zizers, Graubünden

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Jun-2011 07:01	TB	Added
25-Jun-2011 07:31	RobertMB	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source]
28-Jun-2011 10:37	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type]
18-Nov-2011 17:03	Alpine Flight	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]