On July 30, 2016, sixteen people were killed when the hot air balloon they were riding in caught fire and crashed in the unincorporated community of Maxwell near Lockhart, Texas, a city located 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of the state capital Austin. It is the deadliest ballooning disaster in the United States, and the second-deadliest worldwide, surpassed only by a hot air balloon crash in Egypt in 2013.