Title text:
Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no ‘transportation’ involved.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3153/
Death by having the balloon roll over and smother you would probably be kind of horrific.