Lucky escape after hot air balloon hits power line
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8:08am 9th August 2012.
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A hot air balloon carrying 17 people has crashed after hitting a power line near Bentham.
It happened north of Keasden at around 8.30pm on Wednesday 8 August.
The male pilot, nine men and seven women were all uninjured when the basket clipped an 11,000-volt power line, bringing the cable down.
The basket then fell six metres to the ground.
Fire crews from Settle, Bentham, Tadcaster and Hornby came to the rescue and cordoned off the area around the fallen live cable before electrical engineers arrived at the scene.
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