- A hot air balloon crashed on the side of the Monash Freeway on Friday morning
- The Yellow Tail balloon landed in a park near the Ferntree Gully on-ramp
- There were no injuries and police said the landing was not due to an emergency
- Strong winds are believed to have played a part in the landing
A hot air balloon crash landed on the side of a busy Melbourne freeway on Friday morning.
The accident occurred around 7.50am on the Monash freeway near the Ferntree Gully on-ramp.
The Yellow Tail hot air balloon landed in a park in Notting Hill, just missing cars.
Maryanne Lawson witnessed the landing and told the Herald Sun watching it was ‘scary stuff’.
‘(The balloon) just missed landing on cars on the Monash,’ she said.
Emergency services were called to the scene but no injuries have been reported.
A Victoria Police spokesman said the landing was not an emergency landing.
A hot air balloon crashed on the side of the Monash Freeway in Victoria on Friday morning
The Yellow Tail balloon went down in a clear park near the Ferntree Gully on-ramp
Global Ballooning Australia managing director Kiff Saunders said the wind played a large part in the incident, making it unable to steer right.
‘We find a big, safe, green, flat space to land that is accessible and to bothering anybody else,’ he said.
Mr Saunders said the balloon’s don’t ‘normally land so close to the Monash Fwy’.
Emergency services were called to the scene but no injuries were reported
The flight took off about 6.30am from Footscray and was scheduled to land in Moorabbin
‘Coming in at 10 knots and landing, it could have looked like we were crashing but we were just landing.
‘The 10 passengers are now enjoying a champagne breakfast.’
Mr Saunders said he had not landed there in his 30 years in business but the flight plan was always subject to the weather conditions.
The flight took off about 6.30am from Footscray and was scheduled to land in Moorabbin.