A Blimp Crashed And Caught Fire Outside The U.S. Open At Erin Hills


Golf’s second major, the U.S. Open, got underway on Thursday morning at Erin Hills Golf Club in Wisconsin, and while the likes of Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed were charging up the leaderboard with a hot start, a blimp flying near the event crashed and caught fire, causing the occupants of the blimp to parachute out.

Footage of the blimp crash was caught by a number of spectators at Erin Hills, who noticed the blimp take a nosedive and begin falling to the ground in a scary scene. In the video below, you can hear the woman talking through what she’s seeing as she notes that the people in the blimp were jumping out with parachutes on.


Here’s another angle of the blimp crashing to the ground.

Fox Sports’ cameras caught the blimp bursting into flames once on the ground in a frightening explosion.


An eyewitness account of the crash said that the blimp began to deflate and caught fire while in the air, leading to it crashing.

The USGA announced that the blimp was not affiliated with the event or part of Fox Sports’ coverage — golf coverage regularly uses blimp footage for aerial views — and that the pilot was injured and being tended to by medical officials.


Reporters quickly gathered at the scene where paramedics had arrived to tend to the pilot, who was reportedly alert and conscious after the crash.

The crash was scary, but luckily it appears as though the pilot survived the crash and it happened away from the grounds where spectators and other people would be.

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