A huge blimp sent up by a major soccer team for a promo blitz turned into a real PR nightmare when it came crashing down in a residential area in São Paulo, Brazil … injuring the pilot.
The airship was cruising from Carapicuíba when it crashed in the suburb of Osasco about 4 miles away around noon Wednesday … video from bystanders showing the blimp getting shredded after snagging on rooftops.
Locals were sprinting for safety from the plummeting blimp … making for quite a chaotic scene.
The pilot was rescued from the cabin and hospitalized, but will likely be A-OK — and no other injuries were reported.
The airship, rented by the Brazilian football team São Paulo FC, was conducting a test flight ahead of Wednesday night’s Copa Libertadores quarterfinals when things took a nosedive. Guess they should’ve stuck to a regular billboard!
The Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center is now on the case, digging into what went wrong in this airborne fiasco.
