Hot air balloon carrying 21 people crashes in southern Brazil

I agree OP

Seriously horrifying . I went to an air balloon festival one time and was so nervous just watching people take off.

Horrific

How anyone survived that I will never understand.. wow!

I think I was in a hot air balloon only once as a kid, but it was tethered and only rose a couple meters or so before landing again. No way in hell am I ever actually flying in one. We had one of the worst hot air balloon accidents in the world back in 2012 (6 deaths, 26 injured) and security standards have been raised all the way up to eleven since then, but you still couldn't pay me to try it.

After seeing the film Enduring Love I will never set foot in a hot air balloon!

R5- and that one in TX from 2015/2016 is also pure nightmare fuel- and of course the Luxor one...

No fucking thanks!

The Chinese have an idiom -- 叶公好龙 (yè gōng hào lóng), meaning, literally, "Ye Gong is fond of dragons." Its origin is the story of Ye, a man who loved dragons. He decorated everything in his house with dragons, put dragons on his clothes, had dragons engraved on his eating utensils. Well one night a real dragon descended from the sky and entered Ye's home. And Ye was absolutely overcome with fear and ran away.

So the idiom means to love the idea of something, but to not love it in reality.

That is how I feel about hot air balloons.

Awful. In this version you can see at least 3 people falling to earth. What an awful way to go. 21 people were on board, with 8 fatalities and 13 survivors.

[quote]In this version you can see at least 3 people falling to earth.

No thank you.

I figure I didn't have a choice coming into this world and I won't get to choose when and how I go out.

But with 100% certainty I can eliminate 4 causes - blunt force trauma from a jet-ski, snowmobile, and motorcycle accident and death by gravity, fire and impact with Earth from a hot air balloon. because I'll NEVER be on any one of those things.

As it is, I'm pushing my luck with basic automobile driving.

Again, I cannot understand how anyone survived that????

r12 Again?

What r13?

R14, r13 is asking you what the fuck you mean by “again.”

I would never go hot air ballooning in a million years. That would be the worst way to die.

[quote]Again, I cannot understand how anyone survived that????

The survivors, including the pilot, had already jumped off when the pilot brought the already-burning craft close to the ground. As soon as those 13 survivors jumped out the now-lighter balloon rose up high in the sky where the rest burned or fell to their deaths. The video begins after the survivors had already escaped.

r8 thats exactly how I feel about bukake

What was on their Spotify ?

As a pocket gay, I’m the perfect size for helicopters, jets, and submarines. No. And a firm NO to base jumping, parachuting, and hot air ballooning.

I’m sorry, but I can fit large balls in my mouth and thick things up my butt, but I can’t dare gravity. It’s unpossible and now you know how bright I am.

r13, I am r4 and r12, thus the "Again" - and thanks r17, that actually makes sense!

This reminds me of the 9/11 jumpers. Horrifying. I don't understand why people in hot air balloons are not issued parachutes. At least that would give them a fighting chance

Some observing lady in the last video screams like in a 1950s sci fi movie.

The people falling out of the balloon reminds me very much of the people jumping out of the World Trade Center in 2001.

What a horrible way to go.

You'll never get me up in one of those things.

r24 are you also r22?

r24 in a different way than r22?

r26 are you also r27???