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KIRCHSCHLAG IN DER BUCKLIGEN WELT, Austria (AP) -- A hot air balloon crashed twice Saturday on the eastern edge of the Alps in Austria, injuring nine people as a hard landing apparently bounced the pilot and the co-pilot out of the basket and sent several passengers back into the sky on their own, authorities said.

Nine people have been injured in a hot air balloon crash on the eastern edge of the Alps in Austria

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The cause of the crash was unclear.

A hot air balloon crashed twice Saturday on the eastern edge of the Alps in Austria, injuring nine people as a hard landing apparently bounced the pilot and the co-pilot out of the basket and sent several passengers back into the sky on their own, authorities said.

KIRCHSCHLAG IN DER BUCKLIGEN WELT, Austria—Nine people were injured Saturday in a hot air balloon crash on the ...

The hot air balloon crashed, throwing out the pilot and co-pilot, and then went back into the sky on Saturday, authorities in Austria said.