Balloonist Dangles Below Basket After Balloon Bounced Off Ground | Brian Boland Case Analysis
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There isn't enough money in the world to pay me to get into a hot air balloon.
Not Dr Grande releasing a video about this when I just booked my hotel for the Albuquerque balloon festival in October 😂 Noooooooo!
The only time I have ever been in a balloon was with him. He told some unbelievable balloon stories like Flying a balloon at 200 knot ground speed over th Eiger. He was a character.
Oh wow. How long did you know him?
@vicvega3614 I didn't really know him. A passenger in his Ballon once. Later met him looking at a friend's ultralight once. Interesting fellow. Nice guy.
@@algoresports7847it seems like he didn’t want the passengers to attempt pulling him in out of concern for their safety. I would have liked to have met this man. Thanks for sharing your experience!
"Most balloon pilots agree that being in the basket is the optimal position for the continued safe operation of the aircraft." LOL! Funny, but also not that funny.
Piowets
It is surreal to see a Dr. Grande episode set in my backyard. I live in the Post Mills area, my father-in-law piloted out of that airport for 20-something years, and my husband and I went up in Brian's balloon on a date early in our courtship. When our son was little, we used to take him to see the balloons and the museum.
Thank you again Dr. Grande 🙏 It's hard not to respect such an eccentric artist. That museum was so crafty. I'm sorry to hear of this tragedy and that the innocent also paid for this man's mistake. I'm sure that in his last moments he was as horrifically surprised as his passengers.
Dr., my wife and I look forward to your coverage and humor each day. Thank you.
Thank god that kid survived , it’s tough to hear these stories with child victims
Parts of the story sound like a Road Runner cartoon, parts of it don't.
The passengers were really lucky to get out alive.
😂🤝
Brian Boland sounds like an interesting eccentric ("a real character", as people say). If I understood right, his fateful final flight was his first time back in the sky after his health problems (I live near Vermont and wouldn't mind checking out those giant sculptures one day; I wonder if they are still viewable?) Thanks, as always, Dr. Grande!
Ok but he stopped people from helping him because he didn't want to risk everyone else life for him, I respect that
This one breaks my heart, at the same time is kind of poetic.
This is a sad story of Brian Boland who died doing what he loved doing most. Thank you Dr. Grande for giving weight to a story that needed a good bounce.
Mr spoiler 🤨
"They" is plural. You mean "he."
@@DJKinneyThank you - edited comment!
He loved hitting the ground after falling 500 feet?? I'd rather keep flying, myself. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
@@MooseGuy1I thought of this 4 hours late. 😂😂😂
I've had many opportunities to go up in balloons, I've just never been attracted to them. The photos are stunning, just have never wanted to do it.
Sad that someone with so much experience was so unprepared.
Two sports I will never and ever participate in. Hot air ballooning and cave diving. I went scuba diving many years ago and thought for sure I was going to die. The bottom of the lake had hundreds of algae and I got my leg stuck in them. I panicked and sucked in my entire tank of oxygen in about a minute. Or I thought I did. I was terrified. The next thing I knew my dad was beside me pulling me out of the water. I had never gotten tangled up in so much algae. My dad was a navy seal and water was his friend. Well, it certainly wasn’t my friend and we split up our friendship right then and there. That’s my story of the monsters that tried to kill me on the bottom of the lake. When I settled down my dad leaned over and said in his calm voice, “ there’s no need to share this story with anyone, is there sissy?”
@@terryKessler42719 The problem with hot air balloons is the "license" requires barely any experience, no way to train for emergencies like pilots do, and no ongoing monitoring.
@terryKessler42719
I can't even bear to think of cave exploring on dry land, much less water. Props to you for giving it a shot at all.
@@terryKessler42719 I never panicked underwater, but my scuba weight belt came off on my fifth or sixth dive - if that had happened at much deeper weight, I could’ve been injured. I would never go cave diving whatsoever. Ballooning I haven’t given it much thought, but there are certain parts of the Earth that we haven’t evolved to, navigate as comfortably as we are used to, and they can be very deadly indeed. Oh yeah, another one is those super high altitude, climbs where people don’t understand why people die.
Oh my goodness I was laughing and wondering how on Earth you kept a straight face during your droll description of the first crash..then the smile was wiped off my face by suspense and horror.
Thrilling story of how physics won't forgive absent mindedness.
Thanks for the video ❤
Very articulate comment 😌
Yes, his calmness during the morbid humor is hilarious.
I'm so glad I found your channel, with that said.
Brian did not adhere to rule number one of safety, Check for all essential tools, then check again or have someone else check again
I agree completely in that the pilot is best served in the basket instead of dangling from the outside. Being inside the baskets tends to increase your odds of survival.
Brian Bolland was a great comic book artist 👩🏻🎨
I really enjoy hearing true stories on this channel. Interesting how Dr. Todd tells the story about Brian, truly a visionary and pioneer in ballooning. A lot of influencers don’t focus on the analysis, instead only on the terrible accident.
To add to his eccentricity the part of his airfield that had the vermontasaurus was open to the public and those barns he had were actually a museum of a lot of really cool oddities he collected over the years. He gave me a tour not long before he passed miss him he was really cool
Well, I'd say that was a ride straight out of a nightmare. First, the igniter not being found would be enough to panic all aboard but then the ensuing events are just unphathomable. Just thinking of him hanging from the basket gives me chills. I bet the survivors will likely avoid ever getting into another hot air balloon. Thank you for another interesting case, Dr. Grande. And for giving me a reason to NEVER go on a balloon ride.😂❤ I actually never would've anyways, this just reiterates why I wont.
My aunt & uncle had a small hot air balloon company for several years. They flew regularly in a New Mexico festival. I only flew with them once, and it was a lovely experience (except for helping to blow up the balloons before hand, because that made me throw up. The vibrations of the large fans used did not sit well with breakfast. Lol). I can definitely appreciate why someone would want to do that; except for the roar of the (controlled) fire, it’s very peaceful. They never had any accidents, fortunately.
WHAT the HELL is an aunt aunt uncle???
He sounds like he was a lovely person. This is so sad.
I think it would be amazing to experience a ride on a hot air balloon. It's just so sad to hear such a heartbreaking story. 😢😢😢
Colorful hot air balloons used to fly frequently from spring to fall over the Spokane Valley when I was a child. I fell in love with the idea. So, for birthday gifts for my school-aged girls I went up with them as an adult throwing a bouquet of wildflowers my kids had picked from the field down to my young son and husband as we launched. It was a clear day and we could see for miles. It was very quiet and a flying bird hovered beside us as we spun around in the slight breeze. The pilot had to fire up the igniter that uncomfortably burned directly over our heads several times to gain enough altitude to catch some wind. Finally, we did and we had a wonderful time. My son shared a balloon ride with my husband a couple of years later. Although they enjoyed it, it was terrifying to watch them be swept up in borderline conditions. Within an hour of sunset, the sky was gray with lower cloud cover and high humidity, the temperature was around a minimum of 50 degrees Fahrenheit, wind speed was 10 or more miles per hour with additional gusts beyond that as the balloon launched, not straight up, but at a considerable angle that quickly carried them out of sight. Frankly, that incident was very scary to behold. I could have lost them in seconds and would not have been able to do anything to save them. On the other hand, they loved it.
Don't talk about it, be about it
Albuquerque in October. Taking a ride might be pricey, but far less expensive than many other entertainments. And the sight of a few hundred balloons cruisin' above the city all week long is completely free.
I was going to relate my own experience crashing in a balloon with 10 other people, piloted by a young man who was filling in for his uncle, who chose to pilot another balloon. But, poor Brian...
I feel bad thinking about him folding his arms in front of himself and falling, looking up at the balloon as he fell. I wonder why the people on board didn’t try to pull him back in the basket? Or did they, but couldn’t?
You’re assuming they could’ve have reached him. I’m not sure exactly but I think he was mostly hanging from the underside edge of the basket, and you probably wouldn’t be able to grab him just reaching down from the basket. Even if technically possible the passengers were pretty old.
He argued against them trying. It would have been risky to attempt it. He was looking out for their safety at the end. 😢
I think you're overestimating the average person's upper body strength.
lol this isn't the movies, moving dead weight is hard, even for the strongest
Maybe the rope was hooked lower on the basket where it was hard to reach? If i was on that balloon i wouldve definitely been trying to get the pilot BACK into the balloon. This could've ended way worse then it did
Did the first passenger who fell out get injured?
Yes I want to know that as well....
@@janbaldwin1189 found online new source “The balloon made contact in a field near Bradford, tipping out grandmother Ellen Blake, 67, who sustained minor injuries, and Boland who then became caught up in the ropes and was dragged up with the balloon as it rose again.”
Sad story for sure. Balloons are fun but can be dangerous as many factors involved, esp when changing the design. Great points again. Thanks Dr G😊💙💜
I would say his hyperinflated Ego
Deflated, leading to his Downfall.
A sad end to his High Times 😢
Dr. Grande lays in the humor so nonchalantly and matter of fact.
Please cover the cases of Susan Powell, Anthony sowell, Nicholas barclay
Dr Grande is a straight up savage 😂
Yeah dude, you can't be fucking around and going "ah shucks what did I do with that blasted ignitor", when you're hundreds of feet in the air with passengers.
@@RepresentWV Complacency kills and there’s no room for it in any form of aviation. Especially when you have passengers. Like Grande said, a strict checklist should be done in that scenario, every time, without fail. That makes this sort of situation virtually impossible. I hear what you are saying though, and we are only humans and we are all capable of having brain farts no matter how long we’ve been doing something. But that’s the entire point in checklists and strict safety procedures.
Dr Grande, I am not an intellectual, but I enjoy your videos tremendously. I love your dry sense of humour, telling the joke without flinching😂. I would love to see behind the scenes footage 🤭
Great story, Dr G. As always. But, maybe I missed it… how was grandma? I’m sure you would have mentioned if she was severely injured. Here’s hoping she was ok
Doc, you’re killing me with that lead balloon line at the end!😂😂😂 I was just winding down with the ending thinking about my next video and then you said that and it made me do a spit-take with the water I was drinking at the time!
Since 2000, one person per year on average has died in a hot air balloon accident. This incident was unusual in that it did not involve crashing into power lines and exploding into flames ...
It is interesting that only 0.07% of hot air balloon accidents in the US involve a fatality.
Is your first statistic also US based? Just curious
Years ago my mate went ballooning on a team building exercise for work 2 balloons took off and soon after both flew through powerlines, surviving that they tried to land and bcoz of high winds smashed through treetops then crashed repeatedly into the ground ejecting half the people. Ol mate said he was proper shitting himself the whole time. Rekoned it was as violent as a car crash. Guess they bonded over their near death experience. When he got home he was well traumatized😂🤘 good times
Dr Grande: I am hopelessly "addicted" to your channel!🎉
My aunt saw this happen from the ground. She saw him fall from the balloon.
I am sorry. I feel terrible that she saw that tragedy unfold before her. I hope she does not have nightmares about it.
@@nanettevantriesteharder2469 She absolutely does. She was in her yard and saw the balloon and noticed an object hanging from it, and it fell after several minutes. She hoped it wasnt a person falling, but she heard the police scanner a couple hour later. So terrible 😞
"He combined them with other junk" 😆
7:23 I can’t even believe what I’m hearing. Terrifying.
Brian Bolans brilliant balloon became unbalanced , baffling both Brian and the passengers aboard Brian’s balloon. Before he knew it, Brian became basically besieged between the balloon and the brush below. Brian blooped from the balloon but became unbalanced and his grip was broken.
What some bull shit
Wow I've never been this early 😊 love your videos, Dr. Grande!
So many stories, so little time! ❤ Thanks, Grande, for all the interesting and informative analyses! ❤ We appreciate your work.❤
"...his head in the clouds"~ Dr. Grande, before the 2 min mark. This is going to be a good one, pun-wise.
At first the story was uplifting. Hot air balloons fascinate me. Many times balloonists have gone right over my house, so low we can shout to each other.
But my heart got heavy when I saw how delicate the airship can be when one is not prepared. I think it is safer to piece together a puzzle than a hot air balloon. Thanks Dr. Grande.
Balloon..."under the weather". Doc you're just killing it😅😂😅!
Once again, thank you DR Grande for a very informative straight forward video. ❤️
Yes. Another story about physics. At my high school, the word was out. “If you take physics, bring lots of paper.”
He was wonderfully eccentric and this is very sad.
Thanks for the presentation and analysis. Through a couple degrees of separation, I know this guy.
Woo! Thanks again DG!
Dr Grande,
Brian Boland had a lot in common with Stockton Rush.
Thank you and love from Canada.
Thanks, Doc❤❤❤
He looks like Oddball from Kelly's Heroes.
How unfortunate for this man and the passengers. And. how sad that the world lost one of it's more creative characters.
This story brings new meaning to the phrase, “Does anyone have a light?”😮
I must admit, Dr. Grande, I do not find this horrible tragedy something to make fun of.
😢😢😢
you must be a lot of laughs at parties :)
Interesting story Dr. Grande, but your dry sense of balloon humor had me rolling with this video. You crack me up!
How can you save guys like this? Stubbornness is seriously life threatening.
Thank you for another great video and we love your humor!!💕
Sad. I wonder if he had life insurance and what the premiums for people dangling in baskets with flaming propane burners beneath a gaseous bag hundreds of feet in the air ?
I've always wanted to ride in one of those balloons. Years ago, one landed on the golf course I worked at, it touched down perfectly, like a feather.
I had the chance in new zealand, but it didnt really appeal to me. My 2 friends went and it went OK until the landing.
Somehow something didnt go right and a handicapped guy got his foot crushed flat as a pancake and was off to hospital.
Im not risk averse at all, but I like to be the guy somewhat controlling said risk.
+ I like things that go fast, Balloons dont.
The five hazardous attitudes of/in aviation: Anti-authority, Impulsivity, Invulnerability, Macho, and Resignation
Always interesting
Thank you❤
Wow! I bet that left a mark. Poor old dude.
What goes up must come down...what a horrible avoidable disaster.
Can you analyze the case of Paul Bernardo and Karla homolka. The ken and barbie killers
Thank you, Dr. Todd Grande. My best to you & your family & your adorable dogs.⭐💓🐕🐕
Excellent video
AFTER-BURNER
Fascinating story
How sad! 😢
I like your whole setup you got there.
1) Don't be corpulant and/or have a backup person if you're too old to handle the duties.
2) Make sure you can do a pull-up.
3) Have a step or ballast rigging on the basket that can be used for support
even being able to hang on is a blessing. I imagine you can fall out without even catching a grip
@@1LexiconI hope you appreciate it deeply those last 10 minutes. I would rather eat less Haagen-Dazs and survive
I think because he flew so soon after his surgery and medical problems, maybe he didn’t do his safety checks like normal. He probably shouldn’t have flown so soon, good that at least his passengers landed safely but I’m sure they were very frightened.
I feel so called out by the "creative little don't like following rules" bit 😅😅😅. This was really sad, and unfortunately high sensation seekers will forego safety measures quite often.
@1:36 Technically not a pilot and certainly not sending any negative wavs, Dr. Grande.
More Cacti!
Need an instumental for that stage.
lol!! I learn so much watching Dr.Grande!! So Stay In the Basket!! Got it!!
Procrastination with Propane propels pilot and passengers into panicky plunge, proving plummets can promptly produce an upchuck.
I expected a bodacious boatload of B alliterations! I mean the guys name has the initials BB! 😮
wow- crazy story-!
Good morning Dr Grande, it's 6.45 am Wednesday 17th January here and I'm sipping coffee watching you xoxox
This really sounds like the balloon version of Oceangate. But less tragic in comparison.
could Dr Grande please analize the cases described in the last Shrouded hand video? about mirrors, delusions of insects and the Truman Show syndrome? A look from the doctor's side would be so interesting, thank you
“Shrouded Hand, here…” lol
Lost my friend Natalie Lewis in May 2014 in a Richmond, Virginia hot air balloon crash. The balloon hit power lines. She was only 24 and died from burning to death. The pilot and her friend Ginny jumped to their deaths. Natalie was beautiful, engaged and had so much life ahead. I’ll never get on a hot air balloon. Ever.
As I listened to this story, I hoped the end would be happy. I was rooting for it. Even though I already knew that since Dr. Grande was narrating it, the likelihood would be what happened could not have ended welll.
So dangerous, I just don't get it.
What exactly was the reason why no attempt was made to pull him back into the balloon?
My ? as well. If I was in the basket I would be fighting to get him back in, right!?
They were pretty pissed at him for losing the ignitor and causing the first crash so they wanted to teach him a lesson by making him hang on until he fell.
@@TheCoon1975 I did not intend to suggest with my question that the remaining occupants in the basket were too unintelligent to attempt the obvious and help him. Surely, there must have been reasons why no arm or rope was extended to him. I just don't understand it. According to the available facts from Dr. G's video, Boland could theoretically have pulled himself up, but his age and poor physical condition prevented him from doing so. From this, I gather that he couldn't have been completely out of reach for the occupants.
The relevant fact, explaining why he couldn't be pulled back in or at least held onto, seems to be missing somehow.
From an article:
"Emily peered over the balloon’s rail a second time. He was hanging beneath the basket, the one foot wedged and one hand barely gripping a small handle used to carry the basket. His other leg and arm were free, his body dangling over a vast and growing emptiness.
With Boland in obvious danger of losing his life, her mind went to her training. The balloon had a drop line, a rope for ground crew to help maneuver landings. Could she and her father hoist him using that? Could he help himself? They weren’t anywhere near their original cruising altitude but still high above ground. Surely he had ideas himself. Surely there was a way.
“We need to get you in the basket!” Emily shouted.
“Just leave me here, just leave me here,” Boland shouted back.
Emily was incredulous. She repeated herself, and again Boland refused help. They went back and forth: Emily pleading, Boland refusing, repeating, “Just leave me.” Emily’s mind reeled. They had to save this man’s life, and they needed him in the balloon to save theirs. Again she pleaded; again he refused, his voice escalating each time.
Then, incredibly, he began calling out instructions. His plan was not clear to Emily.
They tried to follow Boland’s commands. Roger gave the balloon gas-heated air, then let it float, then gave it more air. The balloon’s simple controls belied its susceptibility to the wind. “You can’t steer,” Roger later recalled in a newspaper interview. “I had no idea of what I was doing.”
Shortly before 7:45 P.M., Boland’s instructions stopped. Emily looked over the side again. His face was wildly, desperately red.
“I can’t hold on much longer,” he whispered."
He was fat.
"Vermontosaurus's diets must constituted of wood, lol!💓🦖💓
This is one of those things where people go "oh fun!" and "I'm sure it's safe, the operators are knowledgeable and have lots of experience." And both of those are true, for the most part, but you never know. You never know what a person is going through on a given day or what their state of mind and attitude will be about what they are doing. Will they be as careful as they were 20 years ago? This goes for all the amusement park rides and other similar adventures. People can never be trusted with things like these, especially when they boast about how great they are. People that are really great at something, don't usually need to talk about it. Thinking of some of my past managers now, who made blunders when it came time for critical decisions. And so many people are like this. Careful who you trust your life with.
OH MY GOSH!!! I just saw you on “Who the Bleep Did I Marry”! You were fantastic! Great job Doc! I’ve watched u for years this was so neat!
Which episode, please tell.
@@azulgaia7782 it was Season 7 It was called the “The Babysitter Killer”
1:41 Thats Oddball from Kellys Heroes. I mean, in the left upper corner.
Doc -- I was surprised to catch a glimpse of you on a network TV channel & hope you don't suddenly announce that you'll be going all Dr Phil on us --- I think I speak for many when I implore with all sincerity , "please sir --- stay as you are."
Love the story though very sad😢
So sad.
He was getting too old for that activity and had difficulty giving it up. He was just medically cleared to return but should have waited a little while longer to gather himself. He lived a happy life for the most part. I think he may have been grappling with the fact that he didn't have the strength and cognitive abilities he once had.😢
If you were meant to fly you would have been
born with wings
Nobody could pay me enough to go up in a hot air balloon.
What a tough situation. Sounds like a good guy gone too soon. Are we supposed to be angry? It appears that he rode outside of a balloon for at least ten minutes. If there wasn’t any other deaths it’s obviously because he made that also possible.
Dignity doesn’t cost much.
Bless the road safe, Old Friend.”