{"id":148461,"date":"2025-09-20T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:37:09","slug":"man-dies-after-falling-from-hot-air-balloon-in-west-sussex-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148461\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after falling from hot air balloon in West Sussex | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon in West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>He was reported to have fallen near Newpound Common, Wisborough Green, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found in a field on Friday afternoon following a search.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim had been among a group of people on a flight from Billingshurst to Dunsfold.<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to be formally identified and the death is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/predatory-rapist-could-have-given-hiv-to-hundreds-of-men-as-police-launch-appeal-13434062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Legendary&#8217; songwriter killed in plane crash<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/country-singer-songwriter-brett-james-dies-in-small-plane-crash-13433819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Predatory&#8217; rapist could have given HIV to hundreds of men<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/west-sussex-6782\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sussex<\/a> Police said it was called to a &#8220;report of a man having fallen from a hot air balloon&#8221; shortly after 9.20am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following an extensive search the body of a man was sadly found in a field at 1.50pm,&#8221; the force added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The search was carried out by neighbourhood officers, police drones, search officers and dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into what happened is under way, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon in West Sussex. He was reported to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-148461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}