Source: Daily Mail.com, BBC Caught on camera: Moment that hot air balloon pilot aged just 18 crashes into high voltage cables... and is left hanging with two passengers for FIVE hours Wind blew the trio into a Northamptonshire pylon carrying 132000 volts Pilot Adam Griffiths, 18, and his two passengers suffered minor burns They were left hanging between 6pm and 11pm last night This is the dramatic moment a hot air balloon containing three teenagers crashed into high voltage power cables and burst into flames. Pilot Adam Griffiths, 18, and his two passengers, a man and a woman, suffered minor burns when they found themselves wrapped around a Northamptonshire electricity pylon, absorbing its 132000 volts of energy. They were left suspended 15 metres above the ground from 6pm until 11pm last night as they waited five hours for the overhead cables to be turned off. The balloon's canopy tied itself around the power cables in the small village of Bozeat, near Wellingborough in wha! t balloonists described as 'a freak accident.' Mr Griffiths, who owns the Greyhound Balloon Team, based in Rushden, Northamptonshire, was out flying with five other balloons from the Chiltern Region Balloons and Airship club when the accident happened. 'We hit the power line with quite a bang and there was a little bit of a fire in the basket but it put itself out,' he said. 'The other two passengers which I had with me both knelt down in the basket so they were fine.' His father Martin, who has been
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