Balloon down
NZPA Spencerville, Ohio
A helium-filled balloon carrying four advent.urers trying to make the first flight across America was forced down early yesterday near the western Ohio town of Spencerville by a thunderstorm, the balloon’s flight command post said. The only woman in the crew, Vera Simons, suffered a broken leg, but the three men apparently escaped injury. “Everyone is fine,” said Mr Lesley Edmonds, a spokesman for the weather service, in Bedford, Massachusetts, which has been tracking the flight since it began last Wednesday. Reports indicated that the crew had planned to parachute out of the balloon, but they did not. The 30m tail balloon crossed into Ohio at an altitude of about 6000 m before the crew decided the
weather was too rough and began their descent. The four lifted off last Wednesday from Tillamook in Oregon.
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Press, 3 October 1979, Page 6
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