History of transport balloons filled with hot air were used in the first half of the 19th century and saw considerable action in several mid-century wars, most notably the American Civil War, where balloons provided observation during the Siege of Petersburg. Apart from some scattered reference in ancient and medieval records, resting on slender evidence and in need of interpretation, the earliest clearly verifiable human flight took place in Paris in 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes went in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. The Wright brothers made the first sustained, controlled and powered heavier-than-air
Hot air ballooning in Luxor killed when a leaking fuel line started a fire. After 22 Chinese tourists were injured in a 2016 balloon crash, the Civil Aviation Ministry suspended flights for three days while safety procedures were reviewed. Fifteen tourists were injured and one man from South Africa was killed in the 2018 Luxor hot air balloon crash when high winds caused the balloon's operator to lose control. Flights were suspended until the unusually high winds subsided. Hot air ballooning in Luxor Hot air ballooning in Luxor is an aspect of the Egyptian tourist industry, tour companies offer rides in hot air balloons to