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Video: Hot air balloon crashes in Praia Grande, Brazil killing 8
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Posted on 06/21/2025 7:05:13 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Eight people are dead after a hot air balloon carrying 22 people crashed in Praia Grande, Brazil


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1 posted on 06/21/2025 7:05:13 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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You couldn’t pay me to ride in one of those .. no thanks

https://rumble.com/v6v448f-hot-air-balloon-crashes-in-praia-grande-brazil.html


2 posted on 06/21/2025 7:06:16 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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Yikes! NOT on my bucket list. Neither are zip-lining, bungee jumping, skydiving, scuba diving.


3 posted on 06/21/2025 7:07:47 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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Witnesses report screams before the balloon plummeted. Some victims were thrown out mid-descent.


4 posted on 06/21/2025 7:09:25 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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How did anyone survive?


5 posted on 06/21/2025 7:11:36 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: janetjanet998

Another longer video showing “objects” falling to the ground

In Brazil, a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in mid-flight Killing at least 8
https://rumble.com/v6v4553-in-brazil-a-hot-air-balloon-caught-fire-and-crashed-in-mid-flight-killing-a.html


6 posted on 06/21/2025 7:16:40 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: central_va

Reports are 2 survivors


7 posted on 06/21/2025 7:17:09 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: janetjanet998

Gave a hot air balloon ride to besties for their wedding gift. Glad I didn’t know about all these crashes back then. We chased the balloon to where they landed and watched them help the pilot roll up the balloon. Neatness counts.

Hot Air Balloons - Up Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension
https://youtu.be/5NmPzUa69bc


8 posted on 06/21/2025 7:19:15 AM PDT by mairdie
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I'm reminded of this hot air balloonist on coke who killed 5 people.
9 posted on 06/21/2025 7:20:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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16 People died due to a doped up balloonist....

https://ltaflightmagazine.com/deadliest-balloon-crash/


10 posted on 06/21/2025 7:22:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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Back in the 80s I won a Ballon ride for 2 by winning a radio trivia contest.

At first I was thrilled.....the closer the day came to the ride however, I really started to think about it and eventually canceled.

Having visions of things like this is why....being at the mercy of the wind to dictate direction? NO THANKS.


11 posted on 06/21/2025 7:22:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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It's better to be safe, than sorry... Because dangerous leisure activities can typically result in nominations for the Darwin Award winner of the week.


12 posted on 06/21/2025 7:28:31 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: janetjanet998

Where I live hot air balloon rides happen every day in the spring and summer...

Once a year a balloon lands near us... two years ago it was just across the street on a property Mrs BBB333 property manages. The ‘Pilot’ said “Call (name redacted)!”

I yelled: ‘We property manage this home - you have our permission (name redacted) lives 1,000 miles away!”

The point of this scribe is this: 30! I mean it 30 people were in the ‘basket’!

I would NEVER do that!


13 posted on 06/21/2025 7:57:29 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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8 people killed, 13 injured, 21 on board

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/21/nx-s1-5441061/brazil-hot-air-balloon-crash-deaths


14 posted on 06/21/2025 8:04:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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God have mercy on those people. Enjoying a beautiful experience, and burning to death until they hit the ground. Tragic


15 posted on 06/21/2025 8:30:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: central_va

If you notice, there’s a smoke trail leading upwards. My hypothesis is that somewhere near the ground, maybe even on the ground the fire broke out and seven or eight people went over the side… And the others were trapped in the balloon that suddenly rose upward with uncontrolled flame making a lot of heat and the sudden loss of 400 pounds of people. Then it got to altitude and came apart. I doubt anyone in that final phase of the video survive. That’s just a hypothesis from living somewhere where there is a lot of balloon activity.


16 posted on 06/21/2025 8:43:36 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: central_va
62 survived the Hindenburg


17 posted on 06/21/2025 9:34:28 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: janetjanet998

https://youtu.be/d14KTSMAYE0


18 posted on 06/21/2025 11:04:22 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: quilterdebbie
Yikes! NOT on my bucket list. Neither are zip-lining, bungee jumping, skydiving, scuba diving.

I'm with you, none of those are on my to do list.

19 posted on 06/21/2025 12:22:21 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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