Post by extreme on Oct 15, 2009 13:52:23 GMT -5
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A 6-year-old boy climbed into a hot-air balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy.
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.
Additional details were not immediately available.
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.
Additional details were not immediately available.
The internet doesn't have pictures but they are showing live feed on the news of the hot air balloon shaped like a flying saucer gliding through the air for almost an hour about 10,000 feet up with a 6 year old kid stuck inside. According to the news, the balloon was a family project.
Authorities are still thinking of ways of how to rescue the boy. At this point they are thinking of just waiting it out for the balloon to lose buoyancy as it losing helium. However, they think the boy may die of hypothermia being 10,000 ft above colorado.
