video: danger on the approach to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo

We will certainly make an effort to bring you here at the video section of DAirfare amazing and spectacular images taken from the Brazilian skies. Today, however, we include in this section worrying images of a common practice in a number of large Brazilian cities: the uncontrolled release into the skies of unmanned hot-air balloons laden with fuel and often fireworks too.

The balloons often cross the approach paths of major airports, putting in danger approaching planes. These balloons are released by true morons with the IQ of a famished mosquito. They do so because they know that in the more than unlikely event of them ever being caught, they will just have to pop in at the police precinct to sign some papers, only to be realease immediately.

Our first video today was filmed this week by a Globo news tv crew and it shows an aircraft flying close to a balloon near Guarulhos international airport. The presence of the balloon near the airport airspace forced approaching planes to divert from their routes.

The second video is even more scary and it shows what happens when a balloon laden with fireworks ends up landing right in the middle of the airport.

You don’t need to be very smart to realize this is a tragedy waiting to happen.

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