…I’d rather not die this way. Flame-broiled as my fellow hot-air-balloon adventurers and I fall faster and faster towards slam-shriek-doom. Almost as bad as jumping from the World Trade Center. And yet only eight people were killed while 13 survived. It happened in a tourist region of southern Brazil — Praia Grande, a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina — when a hot-air balloon caught fire and crashed to the ground.

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