American photographer witnesses deadly hot air balloon crash

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Thank you a hot air balloon carrying twenty tourists well this today exploded.

Into a deadly fireball while they were a thousand feet up there that it crashed to earth and killed everybody on board.

Unbelievable happen in Egypt in the -- city of Luxor.

That's a popular tourist spot for an eight for the ancient monuments in ruins there.

If this is one of the deadliest hot air balloon -- is on record the nineteen victims include tourists from Great Britain France Japan Hong Kong.

But the Egyptian pilot and a British -- somehow -- They're now in the hospital with what is described us as severe burns.

Photographer Christopher Michael joins us now he was in a balloon right next to the one that crashed.

And is live -- on the phone from looks or you must of just not believe your eyes.

Well as a big surprise -- and a real juxtaposition if you consider the beauty in the conduct of the the morning.

So -- to tell us what happened what what you saw -- him when the first indication was that something was horribly wrong.

Well -- -- putting contacts.

It was an early morning.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- By denial.

And I get to work virtually are landing point -- -- call me sugar a penalty.

I hear a lot explosion -- I turn around.

And you know them and see a lot of smoke.

The end of doctors say and video that -- I just couldn't.

It got a pretty -- that is here represented what was done to kind of a political -- -- -- -- -- to the court is an excellent of that and the ballooning and frankly -- -- -- imagine that it could be too loud to go to the ground.

And it -- a -- -- got a pilot.

But it doesn't happen in the long.

And then we get something that was good.

Your pictures of all those balloons as saying they were now looking at aftermath of these pictures of the balloon descending or spectacular from people who've never been in one.

You mentioned the call -- there is quiet in serenity that goes along one of these trips right.

Absolutely.

I mean in fact they get their day in the photo shoot from Outside Magazine and yet mark.

Much better find some ability to what are the most spectacular experience the my wife the end but unfortunately that's a little bit different -- It did they keep everyone away from this thing in England and what was the chatter there.

Well they don't ever think that we're different.

-- picky -- procedures are different.

-- wondering just be aware of people who don't know it and and placed in.

It's -- variability you know he didn't actually see that the in my hand -- I can tell you when we got off.

When they wanted to that it immediately and you know the -- and interestingly enough politically Clinton.

Important generally like you know emergency vehicles.

And we -- -- didn't -- people.

What a tough thing to do to be along -- -- for.

Michael thank you for being here appreciate it.

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