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Well, this ain't good (it may also not even be causal, but...) Pilot in deadly Albuquerque hot air balloon crash had marijuana, cocaine in his system https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/pilot-in-deadly-hot-air-balloon-crash-had-marijuana-cocaine-in-his-system/6245191/?cat=500

Well said. For as much as I believe that public footage should be, well, public, I've also winced at every post I've come across on social media with this footage. There are thousands of them by now, some with informed commentary but most clearly hoping just to generate clicks. I was Managing...

"Moller... Muller... Bueller..."

Peter just posted this comment to his latest YT video: "I'm fine. The aircraft is down in a corn field. We're working on the logistics of getting it out and on a truck. The redrive had some kind of problem that I had not experienced before. Need more investigation to find out why but in the...

Agreed. And, like the rest of us here, I'm very glad PM reportedly wasn't injured.

FMZ elevation 1,635' per AirNav. Last hit was at 1,800'. Lots of open land and farm roads in that area, too, though the fields would be full with corn and soybeans.

I find some humor with those who claim offense to following a program whose leader himself invited the audience along for the ride seven years ago.

Looks like he's started the trek out West. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N352TD/history/20210805/1213Z/2A2

VAS does a good job with their videos, but most of the ones I've seen have had 1-2 flubs like this.

I believe he said "for runway length."

Thank you both for your input. I'm hoping a turbine pilot can weigh in, too.

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of circle-to-land approaches, but something looks "off?" From the LiveATC feed, it sounds like the pilot (monitoring, probably) initially checked in with TRK tower while inbound from LUMMO, the FAF for the RNAV approach to 20. He later reported a right...

According to the man himself... https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-and-video-behind-dale-snort-snodgrass-legendary-super-low-banana-pass/

I'm decidedly anti-government on lots of things, but... yeah, I would, if I saw him doing it repeatedly with passengers onboard. (And I hope someone would call them on me if I was doing anything that reckless.) Good to try speaking with him first, but odds are the sort of personality able to...

Not that it really matters much, but the photo on Kathryn's Report appears to show the right main extended.

ASIAS also shows a runway overrun on landing in O'Neill, NE on July 2... so, two off-runway events and one gear-up landing since June 26 preceding yesterday's accident. Seawinds do have something of a reputation, but I'm not sure that we can really blame all this on the plane?

This does not sound like a plane that wanted to fly... "A witness reported that he was working on his airplane when he saw two men perform a preflight and then board the accident airplane. The engine started and was taxied to the hold short line where it sat for about 20 minutes, with the...

Correct. Launches into a polar orbit from Cape Canaveral hug the Florida coastline on their way "up," and this booster is slated to return back to CCSFS versus landing further out on a drone ship.

Yesterday was bad day in Albuquerque. I was out early and from the northern edge of town I saw several balloons up over that general area... sad to think one of them crashed about 30 minutes after that. NM State Police released the identities of those onboard earlier today. The balloon was...

I can't find any media coverage, either, but it's on ASIAS. Scroll down toward the end of the report. https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:96:22481953180052::::P96_ENTRY_DATE,P96_FATAL_FLG,P96_MAKE_NAME:15-JUN-21