Seconds from disaster... Moment tourists took to sky in Egypt hot air balloon before explosion sent them plunging to earth, killing 19: First pictures of Brits on board fateful tour

This was the terrifying moment a hot air balloon exploded in a fireball 1,000ft above the Valley Of The Kings In Egypt.
It emerged as the British tourists who were killed in the early morning tragedy were pictured for the first time.

Joe Bampton, 40, and Yvonne Rennie were among 19 tourists killed today during an early morning flight over the ancient ruins of Luxor when their balloon caught fire and exploded after it hit a power line.
British resident Suzanna Gyetvai, 34, the girlfriend of Mr Bampton, also died in the blaze which killed 19 tourists.
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The green hot air balloon can be seen as it took off, before exploding and plunging to earth in Egypt

Before the blaze: This picture shows the basket carrying tourists that exploded and plunged to earth

This shows the moment the hot-air balloon exploded during the sightseeing trip, killing 19 tourists

This shows the moment the hot-air balloon exploded during the sightseeing trip, killing 19 tourists

Grim: The site of a balloon crash where the remains of the burned gondola are seen. In total nineteen tourists were killed after the hot air balloon exploded and came down in a ball of flames

Investigation: An Egyptian inspector of the Civil Aviation Authority walks among the wreckage. Shocked eye-witnesses told yesterday how the pilot and a number of passengers jumped from balloon at around 300ft as it was being towed into land and hit a power line

Nine desperate passengers trapped in the blazing balloon basket tried to escape by leaping 300ft to the sugar cane fields below.
Rescuers arrived to find bodies strewn across the ground and the incinerated remains of the balloon lying in a charred heap.
Mr Bampton, and artists and valuer of rugs and carpets, and Miss Gyetvai, both worked for an auction house in Chelsea, south London and had been due to return from Egpyt this week.
Nick Carter, senior auctioneer at the Lots Road auction house said the couple both loved the country and that their sudden deaths had devastated their colleagues.
Mr Carter: 'They were two people very much in love and a lovely couple. They were companions to each other.
They were very different people but they were very much in love. They loved being together.

'They worked here professionally and they were both artists.
'It's not about a colleague being sorely missed, it's about being proper bereavement. Our managing director has described him as one of his sons.
'They lived together and have a whippet dog called Ollie. All of us are devastated and some are coping better than others. It's a horrible experience.
'We all get touched by death sometimes but this isn't a normal experience. It's not somebody dying of a heart attack - it's much bigger than that.'

Yvonne Rennie and Joe Bampton (right) were the Britons understood to have died in the horrific tragedy

Popular Suzanna Gyetvai died in was on board the air craft which plunged to earth after it hit a power line

Michael Rennie was airlifted to hospital after her survived the blaze which killed his wife Yvonne

Michael Rennie is in hospital in Cairo after the balloon ride went tragically wrong, killing his wife Yvonne

Pictured is the home (second from right) of Michael Rennie, 49, and wife Yvonne, from Perth, who had been on the balloon when it exploded

The other Briton who is understood to have died at the scene was Yvonne Rennie, from Perth in Scotland.
Her husband Michael, 49, is believed to have survived the inferno and is recovering after being airlifted to a hospital 320 miles away in Cairo.
Neighbours in Perth today said they were deeply shocked by the news. Kathleen Lumsden, 77, added: 'Michael told me that he was going on a hot air balloon before he left.
'It sounded like something he would be into - he was quite adventurous. It is just terrible, terrible news.'
The British ambassador to Cairo, James Watt, visited Mr Rennie and said he was ‘remarkably well’ after his ordeal.
Mr Rennie has a son and a daughter from a previous relationship and works works as a package manager for construction firm Carillion.
Jane Smith, a spokeswoman for the Wolverhampton-based company, which employs 21,000 people across the UK, said: 'We are shocked to hear today's tragic news and our thoughts are with the family at this very sad time.'
Mrs Rennie worked as a hospital receptionist at Perth Royal infirmary. They had been together a decade but had only married five years ago
Mr Bampton studied at Slade College of Fine Art and is believed to have had work exhibited at the Royal Academy.

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