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Live footage on foxnews.com now...kid has climbed so high that the camera man cant find him now. Last estimates were about 6000 feet and climbing...the baloon was moving at about 25mph.
lol...poor kid...but lol...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy.
Live footage from a local TV helicopter showed the balloon gliding quickly through the air.
Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device, which is shaped like a flying saucer, has the potential to rise to 10,000 feet. Sheriff's officials last saw the device floating south of Milliken, which is about 40 miles north of Denver.
Campanella says the 6-year-old climbed into the access door and was in the airborne device.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news...091015_4061931
Live footage on foxnews.com now...kid has climbed so high that the camera man cant find him now. Last estimates were about 6000 feet and climbing...the baloon was moving at about 25mph.
lol...poor kid...but lol...
Rofl
My dad would never have left me alone like that.
Last edited by tlongIII; 10-15-2009 at 02:30 PM.
He's eventually go to the stratosphere and suffocate or the balloon will pop due to the heat and he'll come falling down back to earth rip kid
I have yet to see this troll. Nice. Very nice.
Camera man is panning around desperately trying to locate the baloon, but nada...
Reminds me of that movie Space Camp...
How is this funny?
haha they just located it and he is tracking...it looks like a flying saucer...wierd ...
Danny Deckchair?
http://interactive.foxnews.com/lives....html?chanId=4
space invaders...
i guess it isnt that funny...but definately freakin strange.
kid just went into and back out of a giant thunderhead.
watched some of the footage here at work, looks like he's traveling pretty fast
Freaking sad, how did a 6yr old get it off the ground. Wasn't it tied down?
From the video i don't see how he got in or if he can see out. That thing is moving fast and will not land softly.
I can't imagine how scared that little boy is, this will not end well.
Latest report stated a witness saw him fall out as it took off. Nothing confirmed.
Reports saying he might of fallen out??? WTF crazy
wow.....he's hauling ass!!!! lol
Yea i just cant imagine how or why anyone would own a freaking giant helium baloon, much less allow their kids to go anywher near it if it was capable of taking off like that.
Doesnt look good really...thing is moving awful fast.
looks like the side is caved in and it is slowing it down...kid may get lucky.
Stupid freaking parents.CNN) -- Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.
Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out.
The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said.
The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.
The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »
"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.
The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans.
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground.
Kathy Davis, spokeswoman for the sheriff's department, said a dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted.
Davis said a balloon company had been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters.
The family has described the structure as a a dome-shaped "homemade flying saucer," Larimer County Sheriff's Office Spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.
"We're trying to determine the best course of action," Davis said. "This is a first and we'll do what we need to do."
Why build something to fly and make it possible to get in, but not safe to land.
wtf
Hey, neat. Just in time for the Up release. I bet the Disney folks just creamed their pants.
looks like he's coming down..
This thing has gone crazy viral. It's on every news front page.
Its still going fast and tilting. If he is still in there, it will not end well.
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