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NEWS-Swiss-Led Balloonists Compensa
(DID HE REALLY RECEIVE HIS MONEY OR DID THE SPDC STEAL IT ??????? )
Swiss-Led Balloonists Compensate Burmese Farmer
Reuters
18-FEB-98
GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss-led
balloonists have compensated a
Burmese peasant for damage they
have caused to his bean crop after
their hot air balloon landed in his
fields earlier this month..
Their spokesman declined to say
how much money was paid to the
peasant after the trio of balloonists
landed at the village of Othegon,
northwest of Yangoon, in Burma
(Myanmar) Feb. 7 at the end of a
failed attempt to circle the globe.
``There were some 2,000 locals who
came to help the balloon after it
landed in the fields. That was the end
of the bean crop,'' said spokesman
Gerard Sermier. ``Balloonists must
pay for anything they break or
damage on their way. That's the
rule.''
Swiss psychiatrist Bernard Piccard,
Belgian businessman Wim
Verstraeten and British flight
engineer Andy Elson had to abort
their journey that began in the Swiss
Alpine village of Chateau d'Oex after
China refused them permission to
enter its airspace.