Hot air balloon crash lands in San Diego neighborhood
A hot air balloon pilot crash landed in a residential San Diego neighborhood Wednesday evening.
San Diego City Councilman Mark Kersey took video as the balloon glided over trees houses and settled in a parking lot.
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"Hot air balloon just crash landed in my neighborhood," Kersey wrote on Twitter. "Pilot did a nice job of putting it down in a parking lot and just missing the houses."
Photos taken after the landing show the balloon beginning to deflate. No one was injured.
The aftermath pic.twitter.com/xvMphpdtJB
— Mark Kersey (@markkersey) September 17, 2019
Kersey noted that is was the second time in a year that a hot air balloon made an emergency landing in the area.
Last April, a hot air balloon went down in the Rancho Peñasquitos neighborhood of San Diego, NBC San Diego reported. No one was hurt in that incident either.
