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American Adventurer's Atlantic Bid Ends in Failure

by Bidita Debnath on September 15, 2013 at 11:53 PM
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 American Adventurer's Atlantic Bid Ends in Failure

An American adventurer's bid to float across the Atlantic to Europe in a rowboat suspended by a cluster of 370 helium balloons ended in a failure.

He was forced to land in the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Balloon enthusiast Jonathan Trappe's attempt had earned comparisons with the plot of Oscar-winning animated movie "Up", about a pensioner who uses balloons to fly his home to South America.

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However Trappe's daring intercontinental flight ended before he attempted the difficult Atlantic crossing late Thursday when he landed in Newfoundland.

"Landed safe, at an alternate location. Remote. I put the exposure canopy up on the boat. Will stay here for the night," Trappe, 39, wrote on his Facebook page, roughly 13 hours after taking off.
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Shortly before his post, he had commented: "Hmm, this doesn't look like France."

A satellite tracking website showed Trappe had come down on Newfoundland's west coast, past the town of Corner Brook.

Trappe had earlier posted from altitude after taking off from Caribou, Maine, to the strains of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and cheers from his ground crew.

"In the quiet sky, above the great Gulf of St. Lawrence, traveling over 50 mph in my little yellow rowboat at 18,000 feet," or 80 kilometers per hour and 5,500 meters, he posted.

Trappe has previously flown cluster balloons over the English Channel and the Alps and had expected to cross to Europe or North Africa in three to six days, depending on weather.

Source: AFP
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