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Related: About this forumVideo Shows World View Explosion Sending Flames Into The Sky
A video obtained by the Arizona Daily Independent shows flames shooting into the sky as a World View balloon filled with hydrogen exploded on Tuesday. The explosion rocked buildings up to one mile away.
World View promotes itself as a near-space tourism company providing trips to wealthy wannabe space travelers.
Employees at nearby defense industry businesses ran out of buildings believing that there was an attack of some kind.
World View issued the following statement: Following the completion of a successful fill test on the launch pad, during the process of backing out of the full fill configuration, a significant balloon rupture occurred which was reportedly heard in the local area. We have reached out to reassure our immediate neighbors. There were no injuries and only superficial facility damage at the site. The flight system itself was unaffected.
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2017/12/20/video-shows-world-view-explosion-sending-flames-into-the-sky/
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Video Shows World View Explosion Sending Flames Into The Sky (Original Post)
Ptah
Dec 2017
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VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)1. Oh the humanity.....
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. Following the successful fill test there was a successful explosion. n/t
Nitram
(22,879 posts)4. That was my reaction!
I was at a meeting at the BLM office just south of Valencia today and people were talking about this. Pretty wild. Yikes!