{"id":328059,"date":"2025-08-08T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328059\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:14:20","slug":"hot-air-balloon-crashes-into-bristol-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328059\/","title":{"rendered":"hot air balloon crashes into Bristol primary school"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hot air balloon crashed into a primary school on the first day of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.<\/p>\n

The balloon, carrying the logo of JLL, the commercial real estate and property investment company, was one of 90 that took part in a mass ascent on Friday, beginning at 6.20am.<\/p>\n

It was spotted flying low at 7.11am before hitting the roof of Oasis Academy Connaught, in the Knowle West area \u2014 close to the planned landing site.<\/p>\n

Two occupants in the basket could be seen holding on as they crashed into the pitched roof of the school and got dragged up the tiles.<\/p>\n

They pulled on the cord to put the burners on and the hot air balloon briefly rose above the roof before dropping again and crashing for a second time. The balloon was eventually able to recover and rise up and over the roof of the school.<\/p>\n

Stephanie, 22, an eyelash technician, who captured the moment on video, said: \u201cI thought, \u2018that one is looking a bit low\u2019 and pressed record. The basket was tilting, it looked like they were going to fall out. It must have been scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta said: \u201cDuring this morning\u2019s incredible mass ascent of 90 hot air balloons, one of the balloons clipped a roof as it was coming into land. Everyone landed safely and we are looking forward to a brilliant fiesta weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hot<\/p>\n

Other balloons involved in the mass ascent, which happened at 6am on Friday<\/p>\n

FINNBARR WEBSTER\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

The international festival attracts hundreds of thousands of people and is the largest hot air balloon multi-day event in Europe. It\u2019s the 47th anniversary of the festival in the city, which attracts pilots from all over the world and includes hundreds of different shaped balloons.<\/p>\n

The free event is on until Sunday, with flights scheduled between 6am and 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and until 6.30pm on Sunday. Visitors can also enjoy \u201cnightglows\u201d, when balloons light up the sky in the evening, and entertainment at the Ashton Court estate, where the launches take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hot air balloon crashed into a primary school on the first day of the Bristol International Balloon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993566084865477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}