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by Broken_Hippo 1943 days ago
It has been some time since reading it, but hot air balloons are much more prone to accidents than airplanes. So much can go wrong where modern aircraft are designed to lessen these sorts of things. We just sensationalize plane crashes - because they are horror-inducing spectacles - and don't really hear about the balloon incidences that hurt 3 people instead of 200.