2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash

On 26 February 2013, at 07:00 Egypt Standard Time (05:00 UTC), a hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt. The crash resulted in 19 deaths out of 21 passengers – 18 on-site and one in hospital hours later. It was the deadliest ballooning disaster in history, surpassing the Alice Springs hot air balloon crash in 1989 which killed 13 people, and the deadliest aerostat disaster since the USS Akron crash in 1933 which killed 73 people.