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A hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught on fire and crashed in central Texas Saturday — killing everyone on board — in the worst such accident in American history.
The balloon was consumed by a giant fireball before it plummeted to the ground in a remote pasture near Lockhart about 7:30 a.m., authorities and witnesses said.
“It does not appear at this time that there were any survivors of the crash,” the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The Texas Department of Public Safety later confirmed that the pilot and 15 passengers were killed.
