EYEWITNESSES told of their horror after an Egyptian hot-air balloon carrying 20 tourists caught fire and exploded almost 1000ft in the sky, killing a Scot, another Briton and 17 other people.
EYEWITNESSES told of their horror after an Egyptian hot-air balloon carrying 20 tourists caught fire and exploded almost 1000ft in the sky, killing a Scot, another Briton and 17 other people.
WRECKAGE: Debris after the crash.
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Jody Harrison
Those on the ground in Luxor heard a loud bang reverberate across the ancient landscape and people were seen leaping out of the balloon's basket to the ground.
Hospital worker Yvonne Rennie, from Perth, died and her husband Michael, 49, is in hospital in Egypt.
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