1 Dead, Multiple Injured in Hot Air Balloon Proposal Gone Awry

What should have been one of the happiest days in a young Brazilian couple’s life swiftly turned into a tragedy following an unfortunate aviation disaster.

As the New York Post reports, college student Gabrielle Nascimento, 27, and her boyfriend, Tiago Kempinas, 37, traveled seven hours from their home in Rio de Janeiro to what was described as a “clandestine” spot in São Paulo in order to take a hot air balloon ride.

What Nascimento didn’t realize is that Kempinas had taken her this far in order to propose.