[2] Following a 2009 crash, balloon flights at Luxor were suspended for six months while pilots were given additional training and safety measures were reviewed and improved.
[3] On a single day in February 2009, three separate hot air balloons crashed in different locations carrying a total of 60 tourists, resulting in injuries that included broken bones.
[3] The most serious accident was the 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash, in which 19 people were killed when a leaking fuel line started a fire.
[5] After 22 Chinese tourists were injured in a 2016 balloon crash, the Egyptian civil aviation authority suspended flights for three days while safety procedures were reviewed.
[6] Twelve tourists were injured and one man from South Africa was killed in Luxor in 2018 when high winds caused a balloon's operator to lose control.