"Everyone is fine, there was more fear than harm, it was a great fright," told AFP a spokeswoman for France televisions.
A hot air balloon with three journalists of the TV show Thalassa (France 3), whose presenter Fanny Agostini and a pilot, fell on Friday in the Gulf of Morbihan, without making a serious injury, AFP learned from concordant sources.
"The pilot was mistaken in a maneuver." Friday late morning, "a hot air balloon with three journalists Thalassa and a pilot was flying at low altitude, the pilot was mistaken in a maneuver and the balloon fell into the water", around Sarzeau, said the prefecture Atlantic Maritime Authority to AFP.
The pilot warned the semaphore of Piriac in Loire-Atlantique which in turn warned the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (CROSS) Etel in Morbihan. A semi-rigid (inflatable boat) firefighters and another of the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) Gulf of Morbihan have come to assist them. They were transported to the Hospital Center (CH) of Vannes "for checks because injuries would be superficial", according to the same source.
"More fear than harm." According to France Télévisions, the presenter of the show Fanny Agostini, as well as a cameraman and a soundman, were in the basket. "Everyone is fine, there was more fear than harm, it was a great fright," told AFP a spokeswoman for France televisions.
This balloon flight over the Gulf of Morbihan is part of the show "Morbihan, an archipelago in Brittany", a mix of reports and plateaus, to be broadcast on April 8. Fanny Agostini, 30, succeeded the iconic Georges Pernoud in 2017 at the presentation of the magazine devoted to the sea.