TRUE, HUMOROUS : DREAM DRIFTS AWAY

French skydiver's latest attempt to set a new free-fall record ended when his ride to the sky left without him. The Helium balloon the 64 year old Michel Fournier was going to use, detached from the capsule he was going to use to jump from 130,000 feet. It happened after the balloon was inflated on the ground at the airport in North Battleford, Sakatchewan. The balloon drifted away into the sky without the capsule. Adissapointrd fouriner left his capsule and moved towrds the hanger...
There he was greetedby his friends and family members...
"It was like having a hammer over my head", he said. The launch team members said static electricity may have caused a small shock which set off one of 5 charges designed to release the capsule from the balloon after the jump. FournIer isn't giving up, saying he'll try next time with two balloons. However the balloon cast him around $400,000 and he has already compleately exhauster more than half of his finances.The jump he planned was supposed to be three times higher than a commercial jetliner...


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$ Above : MICHEL FOURNIER