Authorities believe the balloon was probably blown off course by strong winds. Picture: Steve Fraser Source: Supplied
A HOT air balloon carrying seven people is missing after disappearing over the Pacific Ocean south of Lima during a tourist excursion, its owner says.
"We are looking at a probable accident, we assume the balloon has fallen," Globos Peru Sac manager Luis Miguel Fernandez told Lima's RPP radio station.
Fernandez said the basket attached to the balloon can float.
"We hope that the seven occupants - six tourists and the pilots, all Peruvians - are in the basket," he said.
The balloon was lost about 200 kilometres south of Lima, and was probably swept by a strong wind into the Pacific Ocean, which was covered in dense fog.
He said Peruvian navy units, backed by a helicopter, were searching the area.
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