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Dismissing viral societal media claims that a hot aerial balloon made an exigency landing adjacent Neknampur water successful Hyderabad pursuing a method snag connected Saturday (January 17, 2026), a formation information main associated with the ongoing Hot Air Balloon Festival successful Hyderabad said that the wide circulated videos lone showed a regular and controlled landing successful an unfastened field, which is modular signifier successful balloon operations.
Captain M Chouhan, Chief of Flight Safety astatine Sky Waltz, the institution operating the balloons astatine the festival, told The Hindu that reports of a method snag and exigency landing adjacent Neknampur Lake were perfectly false. “The images and videos being wide shared reflected a mean landing procedure. This is conscionable a deficiency of nationalist knowing astir how blistery aerial balloons operate,” helium added.
How blistery aerial balloons operate
Hot aerial balloons run connected the basal rule of buoyancy, wherever aerial heated by a propane burner wrong the cloth envelope becomes lighter than the cooler aerial outside, allowing the balloon to rise, portion reducing vigor causes it to descend. Unlike aircraft, balloons bash not person engines oregon steering mechanisms and are guided chiefly by upwind currents, which is wherefore they are designed to onshore successful unfastened grasslands oregon farmlands alternatively than connected runways, helium added.
Landing determination based connected upwind conditions
He further explained that this is the modular method of landing a blistery aerial balloon. Since the nonstop landing determination is determined mid-flight based connected upwind conditions, balloons are typically brought down successful unfastened grasslands, wherever crushed teams way their question and scope the site. Upon landing, the unit spreads retired a tarpaulin, gradually tips the balloon sideways, deflates it and past folds it for packing.
The formation information chief, who is certified by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), added that the aforesaid benignant of landing was followed by all balloons astatine the event, including the 1 carrying Tourism Minister Jupally Krishna Rao. “If you look astatine pictures and videos of 10 different balloons, they volition onshore successful the nonstop aforesaid manner,” helium said. Captain Chouhan besides pointed retired that successful the viral video, the balloon remained afloat uprightm indicating a controlled landing alternatively than a crash.
