Opinion
65097.
DECIDED OCTOBER 29, 1982. REHEARING DENIED NOVEMBER 16, 1982.
Action on policy. DeKalb Superior Court. Before Judge Blackshear, Senior Judge.
Robert P. Wilson, W. John Wilson, for appellant.
R. Hal Meeks, Jr., J. Bruce Welch, Bobby Lee Cook, Wayne Grant, for appellees.
The primary issue in this case appears to be whether the use and operation of a hot air balloon fitted with a passenger gondola, actually in flight although only 15 feet off the ground when plaintiff fell, is an aircraft coming within the exclusionary language of an insurance policy. This type of balloon would seem to be somewhere mid-between a "hang glider" on the one hand and an "airplane" on the other. We believe the holding in Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. Long, 148 Ga. App. 216 ( 251 S.E.2d 133) (1978) substantially controls this case under consideration. The trial court erred in denying appellant's summary judgment and in granting summary judgment for appellee.
Judgment reversed with direction to enter an order in favor of appellant consistent with the holding in this case. Sognier and Pope, JJ., concur.