Even though it looks beautiful, you are not getting me to go up in a hot-air balloon. From the New York Times:
The basket of a hot-air balloon tipped after the craft became stuck Monday, causing a woman to fall more than 70 feet to her death.
The balloon snagged a fiber-optic line running above a power line about 8 a.m. during an annual balloon festival. The pilot threw down a tether to a pickup truck on the ground to reel the balloon down and free it, but the tether broke and the balloon flew back up, causing its gondola to tip and the woman to fall to the ground, said a state police spokesman, Andrew Tingwall.
The balloon, meanwhile, flew across a road near Interstate 25 and crash-landed, Mr. Tingwall said. The three remaining passengers were injured in the crash, two with broken legs, but the pilot suffered only minor scratches.
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