Posted on 10/15/2023 1:29:00 PM PDT by skyman
The pilot of a gas balloon that crashed into power lines in North Texas earlier this week said he and his co-pilot were being shot at and attempted to make an emergency landing.
"We heard more and more automatic guns. It was not one shot. It was, ‘Do, do, do, do, do, do!’" Krzystotf Zapart, who along with Pjotr Halas, were competing for the Polish national team in the Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, told FOX 4 Dallas-Forth Worth.
The men's hydrogen-filled balloon burst into flames after it hit the power lines Monday, but they were saved by some good Samaritans.
"You looked in the basket and could barely see because of the flames and the smoke," Israel Alfaro, a Dallas English teacher who helped with the rescue, said. "The gentleman in the basket couldn't help us with his weight because his legs were broken. When we pulled him out, we had to drag him through some of the fire."
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Around the world in 80 days.
But ... longer if you go over Texas.
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Maybe it was mistaken for a Chinese spy balloon.
Hydrogen wouldn’t be my first choice
I thought hydrogen was seldom used and not for passenger ballooning since forever after several commercial and military fires in them.
I thought hydrogen was seldom used and not for passenger ballooning since forever after several commercial and military fires in them.
I hear them all the time around our place and never give it a second thought. Well except I know the assclowns are shooting in a restricted area and would be gone before the sheriffs office located them. 😳
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Just some good old boys.....
They could hear a large wooden mallet slamming down trying to ring a bell up a pole in the background.
Automatic guns?
yeah, the kind that go: “Do, do, do, do, do, do!”
This evidently happened in north Texas, and not near the border. So I’m not sure of my guess. But maybe the balloon drifted over a cartel operation. Those guys don’t particularly like sightseers.
Those silly Amish are at it again!
Doubt it. Sounds like they were trying to cover their a$$es for some poor flying. Nobody else heard the shots or reported shooting.
yeah, the kind that go: “Do, do, do, do, do, do!
The noise I hear a lot coming from the direction of Quantico is: Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. M2 I suspect.
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This appears to have been outside of Crandall, which is southeast of Dallas. Not a bad area unless you drift a little closer to the urban squalor. Little Guadalajara awaits you followed by Little Zaire.
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