Love Island star shares video of 'chaotic' hot air balloon landing as she addresses terrifying ordeal amid Brazil disaster that's claimed eight lives

Daily Mail​

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A Love Island star has been caught up in a scary hot air balloon ordeal.
Liberty Poole took to social media to reveal her scary experience to her fans during a recent trip with pals.
In a clip posted to TikTok, the 25-year-old could be seen lying on the floor of the basket of the hot balloon as a number of loud bangs could be heard.
Liberty also jolted as the lighter-than-air aircraft made contact with the ground, whilst screams from other passengers were audible.
Her post left fans concerned as they flooded her post with worried comments, prompting Liberty to address the clip.
In a further video, she said: 'I didn't realise when you get into a hot air balloon it's not upright, you lie on the floor to get in.'
She continued: 'So you're actually not strapped in, nothing, you only have this tiny bit of rope to hold, as the hot air balloon goes up, the basket just sits up.
'But as you come down, you have to go the other way, so we were told to basically just hold onto this rope and sit and almost do like a wall sit, crouch down to land.
'However, I don't know if that landing was normal, because we were getting knocked left, right, up, down.
'Like it was so chaotic, I don't know if every single hot air balloon lands like that cause to me that's not right, why are people go on a hot air balloon if that happened all the time?'
Liberty concluded: 'I'm just glad we survived to be honest.'
Reacting, one fan said: 'Yeah it's not normal to get in like that.'
A second wrote: 'It's not! It's also not normal for to get in it like that either.'
'Around the same time an air balloon crashed and someone passed away, you guys were so lucky,' said a third.
It comes after a hot air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky in Brazil's southern state of Santa Catarina on Saturday, killing eight people, while 13 jumped to safety.
The horrifying crash happened in the country's Praia Grande region - a popular destination for hot air ballooning.
Footage shared by local news outlet G1 showed billows of smoke coming from the balloon in flames as it hurled toward the ground.
In a separate video circulating on social media, two people can be seen falling through the air as the fire spreads onboard the aircraft.
Thirteen people survived and were taken to hospitals, Santa Catarina's military fire brigade said, adding that 21 people were on board including the pilot.
Chief of Police of the State of Santa Catarina, Ulisses Gabriel, said the causes of the incident are being investigated, with the main hypotheses being adverse weather conditions or human error.
'The wind was quite strong, and several people were holding the balloon when it first left the site. In fact, there was a truck pulling the balloon with a cable, which was moving very intensely from side to side', he told Brazilian broadcaster Globo News.