{"id":290206,"date":"2026-04-28T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:11:12","slug":"wild-video-shows-hot-air-balloon-slam-into-sacramento-area-casino-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290206\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild video shows hot air balloon slam into Sacramento-area casino \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTuesday, April 28, 2026 3:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/delete-87.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nypost.com.jpg\"\/>Nikki Dobrin, New York Post\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>What was supposed to be a celebratory ceremony for a new hotel at California\u2019s Sky River Casino turned into a heart-stopping spectacle on Monday afternoon when a hot air balloon slammed directly into the side of the casino building.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic video captured by KCRA 3\u2019s LiveCopter 3 shows the balloon, which launched from an empty parking lot at the casino near Elk Grove south of Sacramento \u2014 getting caught by a sudden gust of wind and careening into the structure around 12:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The basket struck the building at a sharp angle \u2014 tilting nearly 90 degrees at one point \u2014 while the lone pilot remained inside.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/28\/us-news\/video-shows-hot-air-balloon-slam-into-sky-river-casino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on New York Post\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/28\/us-news\/video-shows-hot-air-balloon-slam-into-sky-river-casino\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:00 PM Image aggregated from New York Post. Nikki Dobrin, New York Post Email,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-290206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}