The Sunrise Balloon balloon about to land. One of Sunrise Balloons' rainbow hot air balloons was low over the suburb, heading towards Queenstown International Airport's flight path. The balloon eventually dotted down in a field near Queenstown Country Club, just past the houses, in what was a ... "perfectly normal landing'', Sunrise Balloons owner and chief pilot Hugh McLellan said. "Normal flight, normal landing, no drama at all - we can land anywhere in the Wakatipu basin. We land at the school sometimes and have even landed at the airport as well - we are an aircraft, after all.''

Source: Otago Daily Times February 11, 2019 15:33 UTC