“It was a wonderful experience until the last 30 seconds,” Brant Kairit told local media
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- A hot air balloon with 10 people on board crashed outside Las Vegas on Thursday, June 18
- Brant Kairit, who was visiting the city with family, said his wife was seriously injured in the incident
- The Federal Aviation Administration has been investigating
A Mississippi family’s first hot air balloon ride was supposed to be a highlight of their Las Vegas trip — until the craft made a hard landing that left one of them seriously injured and multiple other passengers with burns and injuries.
Authorities were first alerted to the incident around 6:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, June 18, when someone texted 911 “saying that there had been a hot air balloon crash in the Stewart Valley dry lake west of Pahrump,” which is outside Vegas, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement to PEOPLE.
Ten people were on board, officials said…