This balloon hit a tent as it was trying to come across the field during the competition this morning. The pilot fell out tumbling from about 25 feet off the ground and landed among some tables set up outside the tent. The co-pilot tried to recover the balloon as it shot straight up when he fell out due to loss of his weight in the basket. She pulled a cord that opens the top to let out air. Evidently she pulled it too much and the balloon started to deflate and plunged to the ground. Both the pilot and co-pilot had non life treatening injuries to legs and arms. It was very scary for awhile until the ambulances took them away.
You can go to koat.com and see video of "Man falls from Balloon".
We are having fun even tho there was an accident today. Yesterday some people were hospitalized when they had a bad landing in a mall parking lot.This is not the safest sport I guess! Good thing Terrys doesn't do this.
More later. Below is a web site that has 459 pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/sunriversandy/BalloonFiesta200902?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWXm7mIoorP2QE#.
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