Traffic was disrupted Monday around 6 p.m. in the Compiègne sector (Oise).

A hot air balloon has indeed run aground on a road in the middle of the forest, at the crossroads connecting the departmental roads 602 and 973, reports

Actu Oise

.

Traffic was blocked for about an hour, impacting the municipalities of Compiègne, Vieux-Moulin, Saint-Jean-aux-Bois and Pierrefonds.

A champion of France

According to

Oise Hebdo

, the hot air balloon was piloted by a French champion in the discipline.

He was not injured in this landing.

According to him, this type of unusual landing is common, even if the situation may seem surprising to the uninitiated.

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The man managed to evacuate his aircraft without the intervention of the gendarmes.

The soldiers explained to

Oise Hebdo

that they would have intervened if the hot air balloon had blocked the axis between Compiègne and Pierrefonds.

The presence of the machine on the road has in any case surprised motorists, some of whom have posted photos on social networks.

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