ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 182539
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| Date: | Sunday 20 December 2015 |
| Time: | 07:45 |
| Type: |  hot-air balloon |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kanzaki city, Saga prefecture -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Kanzaki city, Saga prefecture |
| Yoshinogari Histrical Park, Yoshinogari town/Kanzaki city, Saga prefec | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Two hot-air balloons attending 2015 Yoshinogari Winter Balloon Fest collided in mid-air at about 100m AGL, and one of them crashed into the ground. Two occupants of the crashed balloon suffered serious injuries. The crashed balloon attempted to climb at the time of the accident, and the envelope was ripped by the basket of the other balloon just above the crashed one.
Weather data at Saga Airport (19km south-southwest of the accident site):
RJFS 192200Z VRB02KT CAVOK 01/M01 Q1031=
RJFS 192300Z 36004KT 9999 FEW060 BKN130 03/02 Q1031=
(23:00UTC/08:00JST, wind 360 degrees at 4 knots, visibility more than 10km, few cloud at 6000 feet, broken cloud at 13000 feet, temperature 3 degree-Celsius, dew-point 2 degree-Celsius, QNH 1031 hPa.)
Sources:
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000064766.html]
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20151220-00000016-asahi-soci
http://web.archive.org/web/20151223061203/http://www3.nhk.or.jp:80/news/html/20151220/k10010347321000.html
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp:443/hl?a=20151220-00050029-yom-soci
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Dec-2015 08:40 | isamuel | Added |
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