Hot air balloon carrying 13 makes emergency landing in California family’s backyard

A hot air balloon with 13 aboard made an emergency landing in a Southern California backyard. Homeowner Hunter Perrin posted footage to his YouTube channel showing the balloon filled with anxious passengers after it landed on a small patch of grass at his Temecula home on Saturday (18 April). He told AP: “I was watching TV and my wife was doing yoga. There was a man standing in front of my door saying, ‘They just landed.’ What? I was very confused.” The pilot disembarked the passengers, returned aloft and then landed the balloon nearby in the street, where it was dismantled.