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Luxor, egypt. i would imagine that the most difficult time is when you take off and when you land. so when you land what possibly could go wrong that would result in this. clive? well, i think it s the same as any aviation take offs and landings are the critical element of it and great care is taken on both of those particular parts of the flight. i think one of the most dangerous things for a hot air balloon in the landing phase is power line strikes and i don t know whether this is the cause of that. that would just be speculation, but that is one of the things that can cause problems. bill: how often is it that we see a problem like this? well it s very rare that we have fatalities on who the air balloons. they are incredibly well engineered. they are designed to a very high spec and equipment failure is a very rare thing. i think like a lot of aviation things many of these instances, not just hot air balloons are generally down to a pilot error but not just one thing, an ....

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