Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight from Oregon to Montana after seven hours

Sunday, July 15, 2012

BEND, Ore. -- A gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons made a hard landing Saturday after aborting their flight due to thunderstorms -- but their craft kept flying.

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