No they won't. What do you think they could do exactly? The regulations are already pretty tight. Accidents happen.
Hot air balloons aren't something new. They were being flown over a 100 years before airplanes.
More folks have have died in a single commercial airline crash alone than in hot air balloons combined.
Just a follow up on the story.
All 16 people killed in America's worst balloon disaster were electrocuted when it hit high voltage power lines in fog, it has been claimed. The Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides flight came to a tragic end in Lockhart this morning, when it came down in a field at around 7.40am local time.
A friend of a ground crew member for the hot air balloon has now taken to social media to explain what he believed happened, though there has been no official cause found as yet.
Russ Sargent said on Facebook the balloon was severed from the basket causing the balloon to shoot up into the air while the basket crashed to the ground.
All 16 people killed in America's worst balloon disaster were electrocuted when it hit high voltage power lines in fog, it has been claimed. The Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides flight came to a tragic end in Lockhart this morning, when it came down in a field at around 7.40am local time.
A friend of a ground crew member for the hot air balloon has now taken to social media to explain what he believed happened, though there has been no official cause found as yet.
Russ Sargent said on Facebook the balloon was severed from the basket causing the balloon to shoot up into the air while the basket crashed to the ground.
LOCKART, Texas - A couple originally from College Station is believed to be among at least 16 people believed to be dead after a hot air balloon accident near Lockhart on Saturday.
According to friends of the couple, Matt and Sunday Rowan were on board when the balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture around 7:40 a.m. Saturday morning about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
The Rowans lived in San Antonio. Matt graduated from Texas A&M in 2004 and just started working as chief over clinical trials in burns and trauma at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research earlier this month.
According to social media, his wife, 34-year-old Sunday Stewart Rowan, graduated from Brazos Christian School in Bryan and was working at Crazy 8 in San Antonio.
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Texas balloon pilot had 4 drunken-driving cases.
The hot air balloon pilot involved in Saturday's fatal crash in Texas had at least four drunken-driving convictions in Missouri.
Online court records show that Alfred G. Nichols IV pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in St. Louis County in 1990, then twice in 2002 and another in 2010.
Nichols also was convicted of a drug crime in 2000 and spent about a year-and-a-half in prison before he was paroled. He was returned to prison in April 2010 for parole revocation because of his drunk-driving conviction that year. He was paroled in January 2012.
Missouri court records also show that Nichols settled a personal injury lawsuit in 2013, that was filed by one of eight passengers in his balloon that crash-landed in suburban St. Louis. The lawsuit blamed lack of propane for the balloon. Nichols blamed lack of wind.
The hot air balloon pilot involved in Saturday's fatal crash in Texas had at least four drunken-driving convictions in Missouri.
Online court records show that Alfred G. Nichols IV pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in St. Louis County in 1990, then twice in 2002 and another in 2010.
Nichols also was convicted of a drug crime in 2000 and spent about a year-and-a-half in prison before he was paroled. He was returned to prison in April 2010 for parole revocation because of his drunk-driving conviction that year. He was paroled in January 2012.
Missouri court records also show that Nichols settled a personal injury lawsuit in 2013, that was filed by one of eight passengers in his balloon that crash-landed in suburban St. Louis. The lawsuit blamed lack of propane for the balloon. Nichols blamed lack of wind.
