Four Killed in Arizona Hot-Air Balloon Crash
Four people were killed and one person was critically injured when a hot-air balloon crashed in the Arizona desert on Sunday morning, police said.
“The cause of the crash is currently unknown,” the Eloy Police Department said in a statement, adding that the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the incident, which occurred at approximately 7:50 a.m.
Authorities did not release victims’ names until families could be notified, police said, calling the crash “devastating.” But ABC15 said it had confirmed that 28-year-old nurse Katie Bartrom, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was among the dead.