More than 70 pilots scrambled to get airborne and get to the targets before the prevailing winds began to die down.

World Champion Balloon Pilot Clement Seigeot and crew member Nadege Durand, and about seventy other balloonists, wait ...

Few things motivate me to get up at 4 a.m., and when the idea of getting a hot air balloon ride was first proposed, I didn’t ...

Giant, rainbow balloons will soar over the East Texas skyline when the U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship returns to the city of Longview this summer. Pilots and balloon teams will race to ...

A hot air balloon believed to be carrying 16 people caught fire in the air and crashed in central Texas on Saturday morning, killing everybody on board, federal and local authorities said.

LOCKHART, Texas - The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Texas and killed all 16 people aboard was arrested in Missouri in 2000 for driving while intoxicated, and the Better Business ...

A Texas hot air balloon crash that killed all 16 people on board is focusing attention on the safety of these colorful, floating aircraft — one of history’s oldest forms of aviation.

complaints The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed Saturday in Texas had at least four prior drunken-driving convictions, two prison stays and more than 40 customer complaints, records show ...

Investigators in Texas believe a hot air balloon caught fire while in flight before crashing into a pasture about 30 miles south of Austin, killing all 16 people on board. AP/Ralph Barrera/Austin ...

The hot air balloon is seen taking off from Lockhart, Texas on the morning of the accident. Tamara Calhoun Of Elgin Tx Sixteen people were killed when a hot air balloon caught fire and plunged in ...

MCKINNEY, Texas — A hot air balloon landed on the access road along U.S. Highway 75 in McKinney near Eldorado Parkway on Saturday morning. Megan Benson sent WFAA a video and photos of the hot ...