Love Island star Liberty Poole has said she feels “lucky to be alive” after a “chaotic” hot air balloon experience just days before a fatal crash killed eight people
An ITV celeb has dished on her harrowing experience after enduring a particularly turbulent hot air balloon ride.
Liberty Poole, famed for her stint on Love Island in 2021, was whisked away on a PR jaunt where she embarked on the thrill-seeking adventure, but later revealed the ordeal’s true terror.
The 25-year-old shared a nail-biting video of her airborne escapade across her social media platforms, including TikTok, captioning it: “The unexpected. I ticked it off my bucket list but think it’s going to be a one-time only thing lol.”
In the hair-raising footage, Liberty is seen hunkered down in the balloon’s basket amidst deafening bangs and shrieks, visibly shaken and whimpering as she’s tossed about. The reality TV sensation described the flight as “so chaotic” and something that didn’t “seem right”.
In a follow-up clip detailing her ordeal, Liberty explained: “I didn’t realise when you get into a hot air balloon it’s not upright, you lie on the floor to get in. 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,” she continued. “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 remarked: “I’m just glad we survived to be honest.'”, reports the Express.
Liberty’s harrowing experience came just before eight individuals perished in a separate hot air balloon tragedy. The accident occurred when one of the balloons caught fire and plummeted in Santa Catarina, Brazil, on Saturday.
A video showed the balloon ablaze as it descended. Thirteen passengers managed to survive the crash and were rushed to local hospitals, as confirmed by Santa Catarina’s military fire brigade.
State governor Jorginho Mello expressed his sorrow in a video on X: “We are in mourning. A tragedy has happened. We will see how it unfolds, what happened, why it happened. But the important thing now is for the state structure to do what it can.”
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