Alexis Still and Chrisjan Jordaan.

Tributes for young balloon tragedy victims.

 

 

Alexis Still and her partner Chrisjan Jordaan died in yesterday's hot air balloon accidents.

A young couple who died in yesterday's ballooning tragedy had already tried twice to go up in a hot air balloon but bad weather had postponed it.
Finally, fine weather yesterday meant 19-year-old Alexis Still and her partner Chrisjan Jordaan, in his early 20s, could float over Carterton.
But by 7.30am the pair were among 11 people who died when the balloon hit a power line, caught fire and plummeted into a paddock.
Daniel Tiaiti, associate pastor of the Arise Church which both attended, today described the couple as generous, gracious and loving.
The pair had been attending the church at Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre for about five years, but had been a couple for about a year.
They both were part of a mission group that travelled to Africa in 2010, and got together after that, Mr Tiaiti said.
The pair was well-known at the about 5000-member church.
Alexis was particularly involved with teenagers at the church, while Chrisjan was involved with university students.

"They loved people of all ages, kids, teenagers, university students."
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