{"id":4885,"date":"2025-08-14T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/1-person-dead-after-hot-air-balloon-crash-in-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:37:28","slug":"1-person-dead-after-hot-air-balloon-crash-in-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/1-person-dead-after-hot-air-balloon-crash-in-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dead after hot air balloon crash in Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>AMSTERDAM &mdash; One person has died and five others were injured after a hot air balloon crash-landed late on Wednesday evening (Aug 13) in a meadow in Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was carrying 34 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The hot air balloon came down quickly around 9pm (3am on Thursday in Singapore time) and hit the ground hard&rdquo;, Friesland authorities said, adding that the police had launched an investigation into the accident.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Association said in local media reports that a sudden gust of wind had caused the balloon to strike the ground forcefully, making the basket bounce and leading to five people falling out.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:719349]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>1 person dead after hot air balloon crash in Netherlands<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSTERDAM &mdash; One person has died and five others were injured after a hot air balloon crash-landed late on Wednesday evening (Aug 13) in a meadow in Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands, local authorities said. The balloon was carrying 34 passengers. &ldquo;The hot air balloon came down quickly around 9pm (3am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/1-person-dead-after-hot-air-balloon-crash-in-netherlands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;1 person dead after hot air balloon crash in Netherlands&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}