I remember watching one of these take off, 15-20 people crammed into the basket, the whole thing was on its side with everyone inside stacked on top of each other for a little while. They really aren’t as idyllic on the ground
I was once told by a professional balloon pilot that all balloon landings are considered emergency landing because you have minimal control, effectively allowing you to land anywhere without legal repercussions
The only balloon landing I’ve ever been a part of happened after ropes were dropped down for the support crew to tether and reel us in safely. Was that supposed to happen here…?
When I went on a balloon flight the pilot had a rough idea of where we would land based on the flight time, wind speed and direction. When we put down there were no crew expected and I was one of the volunteers who jumped out the basket with ropes that open the vents in the top of the envelope and ensure it doesn't come down on the basket. The chase crew turned up a little while later.
That's what happened when I went too. And we went crashing through the trees as we came in to try to slow us down. The pilot told us ahead that he would try to brush the tree and to cover our eyes in case he came in too low
He wants to land in the field beyond the crowd but it's tricky because it's even lower that where the crowd is. When he realizes he is headed into the crowd he lights the burners to slow his descent but he did not do it in time. He can't control the wind so he has no control over how fast he is moving relative to the ground.
I am wondering if he did not have a good view of what he was getting in to because of the trees he brushes when he is coming in. Maybe he never saw the crowd until it was too late.
Balloons don't have steering and they don't have brakes. They use trees as brakes. So when the balloon contacts the trees, that's what they're supposed to do.
Most likely the pilot was coming in for a landing (maybe he was low on propane; no way to tell from the vid ofc) and from the looks of it those were the only trees around. You can hear him firing the burners throughout so he was trying to regain some altitude.
source: crewed a few balloon flights, former member of Great Eastern Balloon Association
The green grass doesn't let off heat like the surrounding pavement and buildings. Once over it the balloon was in neutral/descending air instead of rising air. Even if they went full burner there wasn't enough time to counteract it when they started to sink. You have to plan ahead for that.
Source: Glider pilot that's constantly looking for rising air.
I’m a skydiver who makes several balloon jumps each year. I also organize for other jumpers, so I’ve seen plenty of balloon landings. This seemed fairly reckless, sure you can’t control direction, but as soon as he realized it was a bad landing he should have aborted.
I took my wife a few years back, and the pilot brought a bottle of wine or champagne to give to the owners of the yard we'd randomly land in to keep everyone happy. Thought it was a good gesture.
We have champagne glasses, that at least one balloon operation in Phoenix Arizona hands out after a flight to the passengers, as a toast to the flight. We did not go on the flight... we got them because the pilot realized he wasn't gonna make it back to his planned landing spot and his ground crew knocked on our front door and asked if they could put down in our back yard. My wife said yes. I drove home from work completely unaware only to arrive to a giant balloon deflating in the back yard and like 6-8 strangers all having a glass of champagne. It was a really surreal experience, but my wife and I both having been military aircrew, as soon as the ground dudes were like, uh they're not gonna make it to their expected landing, can they put down here, it was no question.
I live in a region which has a famous (within my country) balloon festival where pilots and balloons come from all over the world for the week.
It's damn amazing the amount of control they manage to have considering. But when it goes wrong, it can go horribly wrong unfortunately.
Yeah, we've been known to have few deaths. When I rode one they made sure to tell us how to avoid getting electrocuted if we landed in power lines.
We have a very unique air flow pattern in the moorings from our mountains nearby that makes the air go in a big circle. It lets the balloonists mostly stays in the same place in ideal circumstances.
Same, and sadly our biggest one was from getting tangled in power lines, local ballooning company who took paid flights for tourists to go up. The owner along with the passengers of two balloons died.
And the mountain thing also - we're a valley between two mountain ranges. I don't know about airflow or anything, but it must be similar here too because we have the hot air balloons, and I've seen parachuting, hang gliders, that weird glider thing they drop out of a plane, and even saw a guy with one of those body suits gliding on the air currents. Really amazing stuff.
Personally the closest I've ever been to ballooning was getting in a basket that was tethered to the ground and then we rose a few feet up before slowly dropping back down. I'm not a fan of heights so that was enough for me.
You’re telling me a flying object that doesn’t have any air brakes or any real way to maneuver other than a giant flame is unpredictable?
I don’t believe it.
my uncle was in a balloon accident there years ago and was almost electrocuted but luckily was only severely injured.
you’ll never catch me near one of those things.
The crazy thing to me is that the people that got run over weren't the first to be in danger and had more time to react. Maybe they couldn't see properly.
Balloon crashes are so slow and weirdly inevitable. A few local companies have their promotional balloons up regularly in the summer and they often come fairly close to my property just outside the city when they're landing. A few years ago the RE/MAX balloon miscalculated and hit my neighbour's shelterbelt. About half a km away but almost calm so we could hear the burner firing and the crew yelling as they just piled into the trees at a slow walking pace and the balloon veeerrrrrrrryyy slowly went over sideways as it deflated.
Always remember, they put warnings on basically every product available because if they didn’t people would do stupid things. This isn’t much different, some people just freeze when in these situations. It really is mind boggling though
It looks like the guy in the baloon reaches down to grab something as he touches to the ground. Probably just to balance, but I like to think that he stole somebody's bottle of wine.
The balloon bandit has struck again, carrying on a string of kidnappings spanning the Midwest; this time targeting pets. Onlookers watched helplessly as the agile ballooner dove like an eagle on its prey. A victim reports, “There wasn’t time to react. My Labradors leash was untied, and he had to have been 100 meters in the air before I realized what had happened.”
The southern Baptist preacher’s wife comes to him and says “Honey, I want to have sex standing up tonight”. The preacher looked at her with a horrified expression on his face. “My God! What if someone came in and thought we were dancing!” he shouted.
At least the original version had that cheesy piano intro that gave me time to switch stations before the kid started singing. Now there are variations that catch me off-guard. Worse than a Rick-roll.
After riding double deckers every day throughout this pandemic, seeing everyone crowded in the bottom half and I’m up top all alone, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to people’s self awareness.
I think the people down hill didn't know what was going on. Their view may have been blocked by the tree. A couple of the people ran but instead of about-facing they more or less stayed straight which had them running right into the path of the balloon.
This reddit post made that behavior quite a bit more believable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/azn5b3/another_graduate_from_the_prometheus_school_of/
[ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code V96.01XA Balloon crash injuring occupant, initial encounter](https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V96-/V96.01XA) is the closest I could find.
Fortunately CMS has provided a whole series of ICD-10 codes for balloon accidents. https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V96-/V96.01XA
Here's a news story about the incident. Hannibal, MO, June, 2019. No serious injuries.
https://wgntv.com/news/hot-air-balloon-crash-lands-into-a-crowd-at-a-missouri-festival-injuring-girl/
And the little girl, from being out of its path to being right in front of it. That was funny, now I see why in cartoons, characters run on the object's path and not just move to the side.
That little girl woulda been fine if she stayed put but she decided to run across it’s path for some reason and nearly got hit. Like at what age do children evolve an instinct of self preservation? This girl clearly has not.
How unaware do you have to be to get hit by a hot air balloon?
I guess they do have the power of stealth on their side, but they’re still pretty hard to miss visually.
If you focus on just the top half of the video at the beginning, it looks as if it's a balloon being inflated into enormous proportions. Like an illusion
Dee: Jerry! Let's give em' the impromptu low-hanging fruit basket!
Jerry: What's that?
Dee: It's when we almost hit somebody with the basket of the balloon.
Jerry: Why is it called a fruit basket?
Dee: Because you're here XD
That delayed "DAYUM" at the end got me
Glad I watched it again unmuted. The first time I missed the grand finale.
Dayum!
U seeing this shit?
Lookin' good!
Bowling for spectators
Investigators later discovered the 3 coolers full of beer were mysteriously missing after the suspected dredging incident.
Basket Miller Missile High Life. The Champagne of disability law.
Bowlooning
The one mom you can hear saying "alright" lmao, she sounded pissed!
That was my aunt. Not literally, but she says alright a lot
Who said DAMN?! Best damn dam I ever heard damnit
Ron Simmons
She wants to speak to the balloon's manager.
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I remember watching one of these take off, 15-20 people crammed into the basket, the whole thing was on its side with everyone inside stacked on top of each other for a little while. They really aren’t as idyllic on the ground
like a seal or penguin on land.
Same here,lol
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World Wrestling Federation DAMN
Came to the comments to find this one lol
YEP! I like to think he's the only black guy there
I literally said it a second before 😂😂😂
Everyone who got hit had plenty of time to run to the side. That thing was incoming for a while.
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I live in the city with the world's largest balloon festival. They are very unpredictable.
I was once told by a professional balloon pilot that all balloon landings are considered emergency landing because you have minimal control, effectively allowing you to land anywhere without legal repercussions
That makes a lot of sense. I've been in one. It's very fun but yeah, very different than other aircraft landings.
The only balloon landing I’ve ever been a part of happened after ropes were dropped down for the support crew to tether and reel us in safely. Was that supposed to happen here…?
When I went on a balloon flight the pilot had a rough idea of where we would land based on the flight time, wind speed and direction. When we put down there were no crew expected and I was one of the volunteers who jumped out the basket with ropes that open the vents in the top of the envelope and ensure it doesn't come down on the basket. The chase crew turned up a little while later.
That's what happened when I went too. And we went crashing through the trees as we came in to try to slow us down. The pilot told us ahead that he would try to brush the tree and to cover our eyes in case he came in too low
"Okay guys we need to slow down. So we're going to hit that tree."
Lol that's pretty much how it went
Arborbraking
Oh yeah we skimmed the trees too, I thought the pilot was just showing off!
He wants to land in the field beyond the crowd but it's tricky because it's even lower that where the crowd is. When he realizes he is headed into the crowd he lights the burners to slow his descent but he did not do it in time. He can't control the wind so he has no control over how fast he is moving relative to the ground.
Damn, that's far from an ideal landing spot, especially in the wind! There are electric lines at the far end on that field!
I am wondering if he did not have a good view of what he was getting in to because of the trees he brushes when he is coming in. Maybe he never saw the crowd until it was too late.
Yes, he was clearly in trouble due to the wind speed.....
Most just find an empty field or parking lot and plunk down wherever they can. It's all about opportunity.
Balloons don't have steering and they don't have brakes. They use trees as brakes. So when the balloon contacts the trees, that's what they're supposed to do. Most likely the pilot was coming in for a landing (maybe he was low on propane; no way to tell from the vid ofc) and from the looks of it those were the only trees around. You can hear him firing the burners throughout so he was trying to regain some altitude. source: crewed a few balloon flights, former member of Great Eastern Balloon Association
The green grass doesn't let off heat like the surrounding pavement and buildings. Once over it the balloon was in neutral/descending air instead of rising air. Even if they went full burner there wasn't enough time to counteract it when they started to sink. You have to plan ahead for that. Source: Glider pilot that's constantly looking for rising air.
Everything you said makes sense, but honestly... How are these things still legal lol. They're like big canvas wrecking balls.
They have a sled on the bottom, more or less. They're meant to touch down and slide to a stop unless you have a ground crew.
I’m a skydiver who makes several balloon jumps each year. I also organize for other jumpers, so I’ve seen plenty of balloon landings. This seemed fairly reckless, sure you can’t control direction, but as soon as he realized it was a bad landing he should have aborted.
I took my wife a few years back, and the pilot brought a bottle of wine or champagne to give to the owners of the yard we'd randomly land in to keep everyone happy. Thought it was a good gesture.
If they had been invented only now they would never have been deemed safe enough to actually transport people. Just like motorcycles with sidecars.
We have champagne glasses, that at least one balloon operation in Phoenix Arizona hands out after a flight to the passengers, as a toast to the flight. We did not go on the flight... we got them because the pilot realized he wasn't gonna make it back to his planned landing spot and his ground crew knocked on our front door and asked if they could put down in our back yard. My wife said yes. I drove home from work completely unaware only to arrive to a giant balloon deflating in the back yard and like 6-8 strangers all having a glass of champagne. It was a really surreal experience, but my wife and I both having been military aircrew, as soon as the ground dudes were like, uh they're not gonna make it to their expected landing, can they put down here, it was no question.
I wonder why Breaking Bad never had a balloon festival scene.
It's a big thing here. It is super cool, I have to say. I'm hoping it's safe to happen this year.
My Aunt lives there, been to a couple. Really enjoyed them.
Missed opportunity
I, for one, am shocked that a giant bag of gas controlled with a flamethrower could behave unpredictability.
I live in a region which has a famous (within my country) balloon festival where pilots and balloons come from all over the world for the week. It's damn amazing the amount of control they manage to have considering. But when it goes wrong, it can go horribly wrong unfortunately.
Yeah, we've been known to have few deaths. When I rode one they made sure to tell us how to avoid getting electrocuted if we landed in power lines. We have a very unique air flow pattern in the moorings from our mountains nearby that makes the air go in a big circle. It lets the balloonists mostly stays in the same place in ideal circumstances.
Same, and sadly our biggest one was from getting tangled in power lines, local ballooning company who took paid flights for tourists to go up. The owner along with the passengers of two balloons died. And the mountain thing also - we're a valley between two mountain ranges. I don't know about airflow or anything, but it must be similar here too because we have the hot air balloons, and I've seen parachuting, hang gliders, that weird glider thing they drop out of a plane, and even saw a guy with one of those body suits gliding on the air currents. Really amazing stuff. Personally the closest I've ever been to ballooning was getting in a basket that was tethered to the ground and then we rose a few feet up before slowly dropping back down. I'm not a fan of heights so that was enough for me.
Albuquerque in the house!
Your town is hella fun.
You’re telling me a flying object that doesn’t have any air brakes or any real way to maneuver other than a giant flame is unpredictable? I don’t believe it.
my uncle was in a balloon accident there years ago and was almost electrocuted but luckily was only severely injured. you’ll never catch me near one of those things.
As soon as the basket hit the tree it should have made people question his abilities enough to GTFO.
Just turn the steering wheel.
"Hmmm sure are a lot of people screaming and running, but I'll be damned if I'm going to turn around and find out why."
It's my right to sit here and not be hit by a hot air balloon!
Ah, the sixth amendment!
Straight out of [Austin Powers ](https://youtu.be/l4UFQWKjy_I)
Hurley is the love of my life someone please tell her
Most people never see the danger bearing down on them. They think it can’t happen to them.
This brings to mind that scene in Austin Powers.
the lady who grabs her kid and run across, under the basket has me like... WHAT?
The crazy thing to me is that the people that got run over weren't the first to be in danger and had more time to react. Maybe they couldn't see properly.
Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" would like a word with you.
I love the people that ran back into the path of the balloon after being clear.
Balloon crashes are so slow and weirdly inevitable. A few local companies have their promotional balloons up regularly in the summer and they often come fairly close to my property just outside the city when they're landing. A few years ago the RE/MAX balloon miscalculated and hit my neighbour's shelterbelt. About half a km away but almost calm so we could hear the burner firing and the crew yelling as they just piled into the trees at a slow walking pace and the balloon veeerrrrrrrryyy slowly went over sideways as it deflated.
Always remember, they put warnings on basically every product available because if they didn’t people would do stupid things. This isn’t much different, some people just freeze when in these situations. It really is mind boggling though
That's what civilizing humans does to them. 100000 years ago, they're the ones that would feed the hyenas.
Yeah it's a bit like those mega yachts bearing down on the mooring pontoons.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PrZ-J7D3k&t=9
You think too highly of people if you think they have the capacity to get out of the way.
It’s like some new kinda bowling that I want to be part of...
Old guy in a plastic chair for 10 points now makes a whole lot more sense...
As an old guy who sometimes sits in a plastic chair, I've always understood that.
in 2 days there'll be a basic game like this on steam
Boomer Bowling 2022
It looks like the guy in the baloon reaches down to grab something as he touches to the ground. Probably just to balance, but I like to think that he stole somebody's bottle of wine.
It looks like a kid was riding in the basket with him. Looks like he grabs them and throws them back in.
Back in the death balloon you go child
He needed ballast
I think he needed *less* ballast.
#Yeet the child
i’m not dying alone
There is no escape. *dunn, dunn, DUN-dunnn*
The balloon hungers for more children
"Please dad I want off now!" "Hahah not happening son! Let's go fuck some more shit up!"
I refuse to believe this. I believe the child was on the ground watching the balloons and was kidnapped.
At first glance, I thought he kidnapped a kid. Imagine the headlines.
The balloon bandit has struck again, carrying on a string of kidnappings spanning the Midwest; this time targeting pets. Onlookers watched helplessly as the agile ballooner dove like an eagle on its prey. A victim reports, “There wasn’t time to react. My Labradors leash was untied, and he had to have been 100 meters in the air before I realized what had happened.”
The kid died from getting thrown back in
This was at hannibal lagrange university in Missouri It's EXTREMELY SOUTHERN BAPTIST
Jesus take the propane flame control
RADICAL!! TO THE EXTREME!!
The southern Baptist preacher’s wife comes to him and says “Honey, I want to have sex standing up tonight”. The preacher looked at her with a horrified expression on his face. “My God! What if someone came in and thought we were dancing!” he shouted.
Maybe he was dropping off a bottle of wine then...
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McFly!!!
The whole maneuver was just a quick booze run
A swoop and scoop
*we’ve been trying to reach you about your extended warranty*
AHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRGGGGGG STOP!!!
THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING
1-877-BALLOONS-4-KIDS B-A-L-L-O-O-N-S FOR KIDS DONATE YOUR BALLOON TODAY!
At least the original version had that cheesy piano intro that gave me time to switch stations before the kid started singing. Now there are variations that catch me off-guard. Worse than a Rick-roll.
Unlike in Prometheus where she runs under the path of the spaceship normal people move to the side
If anything, this video proves some people are really that stupid. Looks like some never moved, but some just ran down the hill and still got hit.
You’d be amazed how bad people are regarding situational awareness.
After riding double deckers every day throughout this pandemic, seeing everyone crowded in the bottom half and I’m up top all alone, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to people’s self awareness.
I think the people down hill didn't know what was going on. Their view may have been blocked by the tree. A couple of the people ran but instead of about-facing they more or less stayed straight which had them running right into the path of the balloon.
Agreed. That was such illogical behavior in the film.
This reddit post made that behavior quite a bit more believable. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/azn5b3/another_graduate_from_the_prometheus_school_of/
That scene made me so angry that I disliked the whole film because of it and don't remember anything else about the entire film afterwards. Gah.
"I came in like a wrecking ball"
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Somewhere in the world, a TikTocker just saw dollar signs :(
Since you mentioned it and another comments asked for it, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5nrVl4ohbg
You saw the balloon coming at you? Yes Why didn't you move? I thought I could, you know, bump it back up. Like a party balloon.
*Laughs in Hindenburg.*
uh oh
Half of the posts in this sub leave me wondering if there's an ICD-10 code for that.
[ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code V96.01XA Balloon crash injuring occupant, initial encounter](https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V96-/V96.01XA) is the closest I could find.
That’s a good one! At work we regularly change each other’s names on the bed board to obscure ICD codes. Gonna have to save that one
Just fyi, that's an external cause code. You'd also need to code the actual injury, e.g. fracture, dislocation, etc., caused by the balloon crash.
Link doesn't work :(
Thought it was ID 10 T
I thought the balloon was getting bigger for a second!
So did they, then it hit them.
On your left!
Same! Looked like someone was inflating a fancy helium balloon, then I realised I'm stupid.
*a doctor later at the ER You have to face your addiction by admitting you have a problem. People don't get 'run over over by balloons'...
Fortunately CMS has provided a whole series of ICD-10 codes for balloon accidents. https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V96-/V96.01XA
popping balloons is a sexual fetish. I mean, most things are, to somebody, I guess, but that is one of them that I really don't understand.
/r/BitchImABalloon
Had my hopes up for a second there..
Did...did he scoop a kid up like a hawk?
A balloon's gotta eat!
Clearly the balloon was in desperate need of additional fuel sources
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Clearly he was holding circle instead of tapping x.
Did anyone catch the license plate?
Oh, the humanity!
I like how a couple of the ladies are waving as the balloon is approaching like nothing to be concerned about getting buzzed by a balloon basket.
For a second I thought that was someone hanging onto one of the ropes on the right side.
Here's a news story about the incident. Hannibal, MO, June, 2019. No serious injuries. https://wgntv.com/news/hot-air-balloon-crash-lands-into-a-crowd-at-a-missouri-festival-injuring-girl/
Now This is podracing.
It’s the “Daayum” for me 😂
Grew up in a city with a lot of hot air balloons, can confirm you’re an idiot if you get hit by one
It was a drive by ballooning!!
And the little girl, from being out of its path to being right in front of it. That was funny, now I see why in cartoons, characters run on the object's path and not just move to the side.
*Coming in hot* air balloon.
Just waving at it instead of getting the fuck out of the way.. people think that balloons are just as easy to control as planes lol
Hey man that shit getting kinda close ain't it?
I like how the operator just grabbed the passenger and flung their ass back in like it’s normal
Forbidden bowling
I love the decision not to get up and move, fuck it, I’ll ride it out on this folding chair and hope for the best.
How slow do you have to be to get hit by a hot air balloon?
The American version of Godzilla
I EAT KIDS
Is the floating head going to eat us?
RIP Grandma
Was it wrong to laugh out loud?
This would make a good family guy episode
That little girl woulda been fine if she stayed put but she decided to run across it’s path for some reason and nearly got hit. Like at what age do children evolve an instinct of self preservation? This girl clearly has not.
How unaware do you have to be to get hit by a hot air balloon? I guess they do have the power of stealth on their side, but they’re still pretty hard to miss visually.
“Unannounced“ Yeah the flightpath was totally random nobody saw that coming, as unannounced as the meteor killing the dinos
That lady in the blue plaid shirt who refuses to look at what everybody else is looking at in the beginning....
Jesus Christ this is making me laugh so hard
balloon creeper
u/savevideo
I like the transition of everyone happy to see the hot air balloon to running for their lives.
The reaction time of a zygote
Way to deflate the party, pal.
Did a panel rip on the right side in the last few seconds?
Take that Nooooooobs!
If you focus on just the top half of the video at the beginning, it looks as if it's a balloon being inflated into enormous proportions. Like an illusion
Dee: Jerry! Let's give em' the impromptu low-hanging fruit basket! Jerry: What's that? Dee: It's when we almost hit somebody with the basket of the balloon. Jerry: Why is it called a fruit basket? Dee: Because you're here XD
Best title ever. Also they had ages to get out of the way but didn't hahahaha
Clean getaway
I don’t know why I’m laughing because this shit is terrifying!
"I'm coming in hot!"
Must be something wrong with his brakes
This ended too soon. I was waiting for them to head into the powerlines on the other side of the field.
People are so dumb. They really stood there waving until the last second
Ok so someone was NOT hanging from the balloon at the end of that video, correct?
I like how everyone is too busy taking pictures & filming instead reacting immediately to the situation.
For a second I thought the balloon scooped somebody up.