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Inquest date set for NT ballooning victim

AN inquest will be held in November for a Sydney woman who died when her scarf was sucked into an inflating fan of a hot air balloon in Alice Springs.

AN inquest date has been set to investigate how a woman died while hot air ballooning in Alice Springs.

SYDNEY woman Stephanie Bernoth, 35, was preparing to climb into a hot-air balloon basket in Alice Springs when her scarf was sucked through the mesh guard of a cold-air inflation fan in July 2013.

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