when our feet leave the ground, there's no telling how high we could go. >> i wish i could get on that cloud and float. >> i said to myself if i see blackness, i'm going to freak out. >> or how hard we can fall. >> i felt like i'm about to die because 60 feet is not enough for my parachute to open. >> in this hour, two midair collisions send daredevils plummeting to earth. a lurching plane drops from the sky and crashes into a lake rnl

it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. >> and a man teetering on the edge requires a harrowing rescue 70 stories above the streets of new york. >> the fear in the situation is really the unpredictability of i it. caught on camera, up in the air. >> welcome to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. humans have looked for ways to sore, only only for a little while. flying, floating and even free falling as you'll see a lot can go wrong high up in the air. some of our stories are about dreamers who find a way to conquer new heights well others are about daredevils who relish that trip down. but our first story is about a man at a low point in his life and the effort high above a city street to save him.

70 stories above the streets of new york, a desperate man contemplates ending his life by jumping from the stop of one of the city's landmark skyscrapers. >> obviously something brought him to the edge and we want to figure out as quickly as possible. but the job could go very wrong. august 10, 2011. the emergency services unit is on duty when the call comes in. >> we started our shift at 3:15 that afternoon and almost immediately as soon as we finished loading up and checking our equipment, a call came over that there was a jumper up on top of 30 rockefeller plaza. >> detectives race to midtown manhattan where the 23-year-old man dangles his legs from the

observation deck of 30 rock. >> i see him furiously scribbling at the notepad. and i tried to communicate with him as much as possible. >> several onlookers and the local nbc affiliates live sky cam record the action as it unfolds. >> he was in the northeast corner standing on approximately a 2 foot by 2 foot wide piece of the build. >> about a 7 or 8 foot glass partition between us and him. so i climbed up on a piece of the build so i could talk down over the partition with him. seeing him actually helps you communicate. >> i want to position myself on the other side of the individual. >> he was limited to that one corner of the build and that's something we tried to do as soon as we got on the scene. >> as police clear the streets below to protect the bystanders from possible injury, the detectives begin a dialogue with a distraught man. >> at one point he hasn'ted me

his bag saying give this to my mom. i immediately handed it back and said you're going to give it to your mom when we resolve this. and we want to let him know even though he feels like no one is there communicating with him or listening to him that we are there to help. >> the glass wall and strong winds make it difficult for detective solar to hear the conversation. in a bold move he scales the glass barrier and gets on the ledge. >> a to load a piece of glass with over 200 pounds when i'm fully geared, it was a concern of mine when i went over it. if that piece of glass was to break or shatter, it's going to fall to the street level which could hit an innocent bystander in the street. >> detective solar says he fakes injuring himself to feel more vulnerable and tlesz tlelenning. he's in a position to grab the man should he jump. but even with safety harnesses,

the detectives are risking their lives. >> the fear in this wags is really the unpredictability of it. the person on the edge is obviously distraught. >> if the subject became aj kated and wanted to strike me, there was a good possibility that he would not only injury himself but bring me down with him. >> they offered him some water and cigarettes. >> he said he didn't smoke and we made a joke, this might be a time to start. he kind of laughed at that. >> that allows me to move a little closer to the subject and it also allows him to understand that i'm there to help. >> eventual lu he started to talk and he said he was there because he had just lost his job and a minute you script he had written he couldn't get

published. >> according to new york city's department of health, one in ten suicides in the city is an outer to have towner who chooses to take their life at a well hch known landmark just like that nevada resident is threatening to do. >> at one point he did stand up and put his hands on the glass. at that point we weren't sure if he was going to try and jump, whether he was going to climb up on the glass and jump off there or whether he was going to scale the glass and try and do like a self rescue. >> cole make as split second decision. >> i jump to get in a spot where i can block him from being able to push himself off of the build. >> when the subject started to move over, we hoisted him up a little bit and the other crew actually grabbed him over and safely brought him to the top of the roof. >> once he was over the glass and secured in handcuffs, then we know that the job is pretty much over. >> at this point in time where we tried to continue to talk to him and explain to him that he's

making a very smart decision in handling this situation the way he did. >> the man tells police that he suffers from schizophrenia and is immediately taken to a mental hospital for an evaluation. >> anytime a job goes as well as this job, it's always a feeling of a sense of accomplishment. >> you know, i think any one of nus the emergency services unit when we have the opportunity to help sun, definitely a sense of satisfaction but then we're off to the next job. coming up, a plane slams into a lake. >> it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. and when shifting winds push a skydiver off course -- >> nine times out of ten you're going to hit what you're trying to miss. >> brace for impact. when "caught on camera up in the air" returns. but what they didn't know

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a peaceful day of fishing in summer ends in disaster when a small airplane comes barreling out of the sky and slams into a lake. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> water spraying 80 to 100 feet in the air. pieces of the plane flying everywhere. it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. >> july 29, 1994. waterford, michigan. mark gomez is shooting his public access fishing show on pontiac lake, hoping to reel in a big catch for the camera. >> all morning long, there had been a plane or two that crossed over the lake. but there was one plane that came over and sounded like it stalled. that's when i realized that the plane was in trouble. tape that, man, tape it. >> the airplane's pilot elliott

rappoport and his passengers are on their way to an air show in oshkosh, wisconsin, when the engine suddenly fails. >> and then about 800 feet, the engine began to sputter. now, i figured that landing in the water with my gear up was probably the best choice that i had. >> gomez speeds over to the wreckage to see how he can help. fortunately, the plane crashes in only about four feet of water, so it doesn't sink. >> i got there very fast. there was already people in the water calmly bringing the people out. >> bystanders are able to rescue the two injured passengers from the wreckage, but they need help with rappoport. he's still inside the cockpit

and bleeding from his head. >> the camera guy, he got a little squeamish about the whole thing. so i grabbed the camera, and i started shooting after that. i was more concerned about making sure i got the scene on tape. >> sergeant john holland is the only fireman on duty in white lake township when the call comes in. >> when i first arrived there, i see the aircraft, the nose down. i can still see the pilot in the plane. with that type of impact, an aircraft has basically fallen out of the sky hitting the water, my biggest concerns are spinal injuries. >> the situation seems under control, but sergeant holland knows there are hidden dangers. a two-ton plane leaking 75 gallons of jet fuel can be a recipe for disaster. >> when you get any type of incident like this, you start getting everybody wants to come and look. you've got fuel in the water. you have a combustion engine coming in. the fuel could be ignited.

>> despite the danger, holland goes in after the pilot. >> i actually received first-degree burns around my upper chest and under my arms in the fuel. it was burning. it felt like having acid on your skin. >> but in the adrenaline-fueled moment, holland doesn't feel his injuries yet. he's focused on rescuing the pilot. >> i just kind of floated a backboard underneath him to support his spine and bring him to the shoreline. >> fortunately, everyone survives the crash. but the pilot, elliott rappoport, doesn't believe luck had anything to do with it. >> the training that i had, i believe, is what saved my life. had i not had that, i probably would have spiraled down and crashed. >> rappoport and the two passengers suffer the same

spinal cord injuries. a crushed l-2 vertebra, with one significant difference. >> the passengers recovered completely from the injury. and being a little bit older, my injury continued after the fact. and i was never able to get into an airplane again. just pleased that i had the training that i did have, and i was able to come out as a whole person. >> did you get that? >> yes. coming up -- >> i started to see zach slightly move backwards. i went oh, no, no, don't do that. >> midair collisions and miscalculations send daredevils dropping from the sky. >> you can wind up with closing speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour. plummeting 6,000 feet into a frozen wilderness.

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a spectacular aerial stunt goes horribly wrong. not one, but two midair collisions 10,000 feet above the earth, causing chaos in the skies. wing suit fliers are daredevils outfitted in aerodynamic suits allowing them to two at speeds faster than 120 miles an hour. it's the closest a human can get to actually taking flight. >> basically i feel like i've got my own private and personal f-16. >> your arms are your wings. your legs are your engines. wherever you go, you fly to that place. what else can you do that feels like that? >> scott bland and scotty burns are veterans of the high octane sport. >> you know, most people ride a roller coaster for a thrill.

that's just about something to put me to sleep. >> but the greater the thrill, the greater the danger. >> i would say the most dangerous thing is the risk of collision. if you lose sight of somebody else that you're flying with, you can wind up with closing speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour. >> the main fear with being hit is to be knocked out or killed. >> the biggest risk for collision comes when wing suiters fly dangerously close to each other in formations called flocks. and the most important person in the flock is the base. the person flying out front, guiding the team toward their target. and there's nobody scotty burns would want as his leader more than his good friend scott bland. >> scott's been leader of more large formations than anybody else on the planet. the number one thing that we know is we can always trust him to get us home. >> they look to me for the point of reference. i have to go a rate and a speed

and hold it there no matter what happens. >> if he falters in any way, his flock could be thrown into a state of chaos. >> if we're all going in the same direction, if we're all doing the same thing, the chance of collision is fairly low. but that can change. >> and it can change in an instant. like it did on a clear day two miles over puerto rico. bland is struck by another wing suiter and starts spiraling out of control toward the earth. february 16, 2008. it's the third day of the annual puerto rico free-fall festival. scott bland, scotty burns and their team have been having a blast. >> that day was another perfect day in paradise. it's gorgeous down there. the beaches are beautiful. the water is beautiful. and the sky diving is terrific. >> their team has been jumping

out of planes all morning. on their fifth jump of the day, they decide to ratchet up the adrenaline to try one of the most dangerous formations a flock can perform. it's called the stack. >> it's when you get a number of wing suiters actually flying one over top of the other. you can only see what's in front of your eyes. so you have a hard time seeing the people behind you. you have to rely on those people to do the right thing and not fly into you. definitely, a large risk whenever a stack goes wrong. >> but all seems okay on exit. team leader scott bland points the flock towards the drop zone as scotty burns and another wing-suit diver shoot the action from the wing. and that's when it happens. fellow wing suiter zach hits a pocket of dead air caused by another flier's wake. >> i started to see zach slightly move backwards. i went, oh, no.

don't do that. >> he's dropping like a bowling ball and slams right into the back of bland's legs, sending the base of the stack into a free fall. it's a scary moment, but bland recovers quickly. scotty burns, with his camera still rolling, dives to check on his friend. >> i flew over next to him and gave him an okay signal. he had a big old smile on his face and kind of a look like what the heck was that? >> and i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace, but that i said ouch. >> bland is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. >> i didn't know if my gear had been damaged. my pilot chute or some other part of my gear could have been opened and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was okay. >> bland immediately turns his

attention to the safety of his team members who start reforming around him. >> i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i'm safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. >> but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if everyone is accounted for. >> after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of people are there. i knew how many people we had in the flock when we left the airplane. and then i counted that number of parachutes, plus mine, when we opened. so i knew everybody had a parachute open. they could have been hurt, but

they weren't dead. >> when they land, bland finds out that everybody in the group is okay. his legs and back are very sore from the impact, but more than anything, he's thankful the episode is over. >> it was a huge feeling of relief to finally get my feet back on the ground. there a rule, that it's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than to be up there wishing you were down here. >> but if you think this brush with death will cause scott bland to stop jumping out of planes, think again. >> a lot of people look at skydiving and say these people are just nuts. they have a death wish. this is not the kind of thing i could do. there's no payoff without some kind of risk. and if you take a graduated risk, the payoff can be well worth it. jumping from 6,000 feet above one of the coldest and most remote places on earth, a wing-suit flier misjudges his altitude and crashes into a snow-packed mountain.

>> it was a trip of a lifetime. and it nearly ended up costing me my life. >> april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling through russia's far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. >> it's covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos than any country on the planet. they call it the land of fire and ice. >> it is the final of the trip and he's eager to make it one of the most thrilling trips. >> we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody this was going to be the last jump because it was getting dark. we were nearly out of daylight. >> boole follows the lead wing-suit flier as he jumps from the helicopter into an icy gorge. >> i was filming. to help me frame the video, i had a ring site on my left eye.

i wasn't looking through both eyes. it gives you depth perception. plus the fact we're flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you can't make out the texture. it's just white. >> the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although it's dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. >> so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 600 feet. >> boole is more focused on getting the shot than his altitude until the other flier pulls his chute. >> i saw him reach for his parachute. but he immediately, in my peripheral vision, i saw the ground. rather than being at 600 feet, i was at more like 60 feet. i could see the texture of the snow and ice. so then i thought most likely i'm about to die because 60 feet is not enough for a parachute to open. i'm still doing over 100 miles per hour.

>> he pulls his parachute hoping for a miracle. >> the parachute didn't open in time, but what it did do is it slowed me down enough that i'm still here today. i swung out and i landed flat on my back. which spread out the force of the impact. if it had opened a little bit before, i would land on my legs, and i would have gotten internal injuries. >> boole fractures his spine, breaks some ribs and bruises his lungs but amazingly, survives the 6,000-foot drop. >> my initial feeling was parachuting, flying, all gone, finished. three, two, one. >> but time heals wounds, and boole can't stay grounded for long. >> after six months, i started to miss jumping. to be happy in my life, this is what i do. this is what i am. i'm a jumper. i fly. >> welcome back.

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camera." i'm contessa brewer. the history of sky diving dates back to 1485 when leonardo da vinci sketched the first blueprints for a parachute. these days, hundreds of thousands of people jump from high places and planes every year, deploying parachutes to bring them safely back to earth. according to the united states parachute association, the likelihood of a fatal crash is roughly 1 in 140,000. and the sky diver you're about to see escapes that fate by the skin of his teeth. an experienced skydiver is sailing down to earth at 45 miles per hour. like he's done more than 300 times before. but this time, something goes horribly wrong. >> are you okay? >> i've been in other situations where i've got out of them. this one here where the winds happened to catch me at the wrong time.

i had to make some really fast decisions. and obviously, it didn't pan out the way i wanted it to. i was hoping to miss it, but i didn't miss the trailer. >> april 30, 2011. high above colorado's fremont county airport skydiving instructor tommy ferguson is preparing for his third and final jump of the day. backing news tonight, officials in washington speaking out now about the arrest of a mall chuting suspect. let's listen in. >> lieutenant holly from the island county sheriff's office will provide detail about the actual arrest of the suspect and then we'll hear words from the governor own the mayor. save your questions to the end. we'll take them at that time. >> good evening. i'm the chief with the

burlington police department. yesterday evening our city had a great tragedy. we lost some very special people who passed away in a very unnecessary incident. through a lot of agencies involved, which numerous, up to 27 different agencies were involved in this case, we were able to, this evening, make an arrest in oak harbor, of a male individual with the help of the island county sheriff and other people. the details of this information i'm going to turn over to lieutenant camic of the smart team. he's the lead in this and i'll let him take it from there. >> thank you, chief. my name is chris camic. i'm a lieutenant with the police department and i'm the commander for the multiple agency response

team, the lead invest day tiff group during this incident. as the chief stated, about 6:30 tonight we arrested 20-year-old oak harbor man in this case. what led up to that was throughout last night we received -- and throughout today as well, we received numerous tips from the public about persons of interest that we should look at. earlier today one of those tips that came in had information in it that we pursued. we began interviewing acquaintances, family members associated with the tip. and it grew a stronger, a stronger connection for us. in addition to that, the investigators had been able to pull down all of the security video footage outside the cascade mall from area businesses. and in reviewing that footage we

were able to identify a suspect vehicle which we didn't have earlier. as we looked into the vehicle and the vehicle information, it made an even stronger connection with our subject. and at that point we put out information to the island county sheriff's office and the city of oak harbor and around 6:30 this evening the individual was taken into custody. and his name is arkan satine. i'll turn it over to the lieutenant to speak to the arrest itself. >> good evening, ie maim is lieutenant mike holly. i'm with the island county sheriff's office. like all of the other agencies in the area we've been monitoring this incident and late this afternoon we began getting information from the task force that the suspect may be a resident of the oak harbor area. i was preparing some information

for our deputies in our office. i pulled up a photo we had of him and some of the information. and as i was doing that i overheard our scanner, the oak harbor police department had spotted the possible suspect car half a mile south of my office. it doesn't occupied at the time. i told myself, my sergeant, one of our deputies, let's get down there and help out. as we proceeded southbound, at the dorper of 7th avenue northeast and oak harbor road i saw an individual walking northbound on the sidewalk and i instantly recognized that that is the person i just viewed on my computer. i did an abrupt u-turn, hit the lights and pulled my gun and myself and others took the individual into custody. he said nothing. he was kind of zombie like, the

best i can describe. he did not have a weapon with him. he had a leather satchel, appeared to be a computer inside the bag. moments later the detectives arrived on scene and they took him into custody from there. >> as governor of the state of washington tonight, i can say that our entire state is united. i've been across the state today and i can say that all of our hearts are in burlington tonight. i know that there are 7 million pairs of arms that would want to embrace the families in their losses and the whole county community. the state of washington is with this community and will be in the days to come. we're united in an amazingly powerful respect for the law enforcement personnel, the work

they did here. within 24 hours to make this arrest, something like two dozen law enforcement agencies coordinated their activities. hundreds literally of law enforcement personnel did what they do every day, which is to put themselves on the line. and i think we should note that, that these men and women went out there and put themselves on the line as they do so often. and i respect that. i think all of us should. i just drove over the trooper o'connell bridge, a trooper we lost a couple of years ago. we know what it is to be a law enforcement agency. and we want to thank them both for their courage and professionalism. we're united in knowing that the status quo is not good enough when it comes to violence in our community. don't have the answers to this

violence, but i do know this. passivity in the face of the scourge of violence is inacceptable. inaction in the face of this violence is unacceptable. and in the days to come i hope we will be united by allowing law enforcement to do their work, do further investigation on this and act together to try to reduce the violence in our communities. our hearts are in burlington tonight. i believe i'm going to introduce mayor sexton who i have really enjoyed working with. mayor. >> thank you. steve saxton, the mayor of burlington. as i mentioned earlier, last night we suffered an attack on our community. and it really defined to me what is community is. saw people come together. we talk about the law enforcement community a lot and that is what this is right here. we have federal, state, county, city all working together to

help us when we need it the most. i can't imagine what situation we'd be in if it was burlington on our own trying to do this. i can almost certainly guarantee that we would not have a suspect in custody tonight if it wasn't for the efforts of the men and women you're looking at today. thank you to each and every one of them. in our community we suffered a devastating loss of five treasured members of our community who have done nothing more than what we all have done on any given day, gone to the shopping mall. that was us in that mall last night, any one of us at any time. and it changed those families forever. we need to keep them in our prayers. it changed your community, i'm afraid to some extent forever. it brought the world into our city, into your county.

and i know that through coming together i've seen this evening and today, throughout our city and county, prayer vigils, people gathering at parks to share with one another and support one another. at the end of the day we're going to be a stronger county and a stronger city of burlington because of this. and again keep those folks in your prayers and again i can't thank these men and women who answered our call in such a willing fashion to go in when we needed to get out as quickly and energetically as they did. so thank you. >> at this time we're going to open it up to questions. please be aware that this is still an investigation that is fresh. we just made an arrest. so whoever can answer that we'll bring up. we're not trying to hide anything but becan tell you what

we know at this time that's not going to compromise that investigation. so i'll go ahead open start over here. >> lieutenant holly, did he try to run at all? and also what was your reaction? you have been looking for this guy, the biggest crime around here and all of the sudden it he's just right out your win do. >> no, he didn't run. i literally hit my brakes, did a quick turn, jumped out, there was another reserve deputy coming out and we both jumped out with our guns, he froze and redirected him and he complied, just stood still. >> what was his motive in. >> i have no idea at this point. he didn't say a thing to me. >> we heard that he may have gotten his weapons from his father. have you heard that? >> i have no heard that. >> she had no weapons on him at the time? >> he was unarmed. >> just the computer? >> just the computer and personal effects in the satchel.

>> was he known to law enforcement before this? >> he had been i believe arrested once in our county last year for a simple assault. the sheriff's office investigated that. >> any mental instability? >> not that i'm aware of. >> do you know where he got his rifle that he used in his attack? >> no, i do not. >> if you would, yeah. sorry. he gets put in the position of answering some of the questions from the smart investigation as well. so whatever either one of us can answer there, be happy to do so. >> more about the rifle, where it came from and how he got it? >> at this point in time it appears that the rifle may have been brought in from the vehicle that was there. we have not been able to work through all of the details of the ownership of the rifle at this point in time to put in more confirmation but we do have

the rifle. >> when you say brought in from the vehicle, you mean early? >> correct. at the early briefing today the video footage shows that he initially walked into the mall unarmed and ten minutes later we see him in macy's armed with a rifle. at the earlier conference we didn't have the information to about the vehicle to know that. >> can you address the motive, why this mall, why this macy's? >> i wish i could at this point. but we're only a couple of hours from taking him into custody. and the next stage of this right now is to do those interviews and learn more from him, if he's willing to share that with us, what was going on. in addition to that, we have to take that information that he provides and look into it with our victim, our victimology, our witnesses. there's a lot of things to compare to. we don't want to just take it from one particular source before we determine a conclusion

about the motive. >> can you conclusively rule out possible terrorism? >> i'm not going to rule out anything at this point because we're only 24 hours into what it is and we just got him into custody from there. now i don't want to say that from an alarmist standpoint that we're thinking it's one thing or another. it's just too early to tell. >> first you guys said that he may have been hispanic. do you think it play into the shooting at all, his race, ethnicity, anything like that in. >> the earlier accounts came from witness accounts who were trying to describe what they saw. when we put out the screen capture, we felt that would be a more accurate depiction of what we were looking for. did that lead to the motivation in this shooting? we don't know until we get further down the road in our investigation and learn more about what his intents were. >> did he have any ties to any

of the victims at this point that you know of? >> that i know of right now, no. but i want to reserve the right to reverse that later on if we do know it. at least at this point the initial information does not appear to be. >> like a random crime. >> there was information that his girlfriend may have worked at macy's? do you have any information on that? >> i don't have any information on that. you have to understand, we had hundreds of tips come in from the point of the event yesterday all the way through to, you know, up until the time of the arrest. and in addition to that we had 20, 30 or more witnesses that were were interviewing. we have to take all of that information and cross-check it, including, you know, people's assertions that certain relationships were there. you know, we found at different points in the investigation, om lead or tip that we were running felt strong and firm only to find it wasn't.

i think we have to be careful in these not to magnify the incident unintentionally. >> anything else in his car, any other weapons? >> so we don't search the car right away. we've taken the car into custody. and part of what's going to go on next tonight and certainly all through tomorrow, we'll be applying for search warrants, for vehicles, any personal effects, residences and locations. the vehicle is one of those on the list to do. >> did he live with his parents? >> i'm not certain on that. i'm not certain. i believe that he had a residence but i don't know what all of the connections were. here again, part of that is because they're still doing the lineages and connections on where he was at. we just know that it was a residence over in oak harbor. >> family members and father, siblings, are they cooperating with the investigators? >> yes.

we've been in touch with the family and have a very good working relationship with them. >> our investigation showed that he may have had mental issues in the past and the state of washington had looked into this. can you expound on that? do you have any information on that? >> really preliminary information on that and that's one of the aspects of the investigation that we'll be looking into to see if it contributed in any way. >> he did have a record of mental issues? >> i don't have factual information that i can confirm or deny that. again, everything is preliminary right now. it's one of the topics that we would naturally cover. >> can you speak at all about what the witnesses told you they heard in the room other than gun shots? >> we've been listening in to washington state officials speaking at the arrest of a mall shooting suspect. they have 20-year-old arcan

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a gas station owner lives out his childhood fantasy, floating nearly 18,000 feet above the earth tethered to dozens of brightly colored balloons. >> some of my best memories are as a child. you see a little cloud. i wish i could get on that cloud and float. it's a peaceful experience. >> this is not just a flight of fancy for kent couch. in 2008, he tries to break his own record for number of miles traveled in what's called a cluster balloon. >> i call cluster ballooning

simply a way to get up in the air with a group of balloons. some people would use weather balloons. i've never done that. party balloons seem real dependable. the funny thing is usually i use a lawn chair because it's comfortable and i can recline it and i can lean back. it's kind of redneck, and i'm kind of redneck. >> there are some federal aviation rules to follow. but remarkably, as long as couch's aircraft stays under 254 pounds, he isn't required to have a pilot's license nor is he required to register with the faa. but couch does need some technical assistance. >> mark noel is my friend who has done a great job of making everything better. he's a techie guy who thinks about things i don't think about. >> it might look unsafe, but a lot of care and attention has gone to make it very safe. >> cluster ballooning has come a long way since it was first attempted in the early 1930s. kent's lawn chair is outfitted

with all the gear he'll need to survive a long trip. from a gps system so his ground crew can track him, to an oxygen tank so he can breathe above 13,000 feet. and lucky for us, it also includes cameras to document his voyages. but in preparation for breaking his record, the most valuable tool for couch is the experience he's gained from his earlier attempts. like this white knuckle flight in 2007. >> in that '07 flight the wind would shoot me one way or the other. it was a little bit treacherous air. but fatigue got to me on that trip because i had a big old parachute and it was bumpy. my back was killing me. and i was running out of ballast. >> ballast is any weight that improves stability. couch prefers to use water. >> he gets down too low then he drops water out so he can go back up. then when he gets too high, he pops a couple balloons to come back down. running out of ballast is the end of the ride in terms of his

ability to control his altitude. each time it made things a little better just learning from the previous flight. >> i started using a pilot's parachute, which is nice and comfortable. we had more balloons, more ballast, we got more security and safety. better communication between the ground crew. >> july 5, 2008. kent couch attempts to fly from bend, oregon, to boise, idaho, and break his record of 193 miles traveled in a cluster balloon. >> on launch day, we had to be up at 3:30 in the morning. >> it's usually about 50 to 70 volunteers that make this thing work. we'd normally have four or six helium stations. each station has four people on it with a different role. >> it takes a minute or two to blow up one balloon. we don't want to blow them up all the way because we want room for them to expand. >> after all the balloons are

staged, we put them in clusters of five. then you start assembling the groups of five into larger assemblies of 15 or 20. >> once everything checks out, couch kisses his wife and, with cameras rolling, begins the ascent. >> for the most part, i can't steer myself. that's what i like about this little cluster ballooning thing. you just go where the winds take you. >> the thing you wouldn't realize is how peaceful it is up there. it's super quiet. he's traveling at the same speed of the wind. even when he was moving at 15 miles an hour, he could set a napkin on his knee, and it wouldn't go anywhere. >> it's just like you're floating on a cloud. you start living a moment of what you dreamed as a child. >> nearly nine hours later, couch crosses the state line into idaho, but he's not going to make it to boise. the winds have pushed him off course about 85 miles north of the city. >> i was a bit tired of being up there. i'm not a guy to sit still. >> despite missing the mark, he

knows he's still broken his previous record. so couch prepares to land. >> you got to have a way to make sure you can get these balloons popped on the way down. my preference is a daisy red rider bb gun. >> it only takes a couple of balloons to change him from ascending to descending. >> i'm coming in on a gradual descent. i'm looking for an open area. no fences or wires or houses or roads. that's what i'm hoping for. >> couch touches down in cambridge, idaho, to a hero's welcome. his new record is 235 miles. >> so i think the next flight i'm going to get enough balloons and ballast to go to 25,000 feet. and then see if i can stay out overnight, i could maybe break my old record and go farther. maybe i could go 500 miles. >> luckily, cluster ballooning is a rare pastime. these home-made aircraft require skill and training to operate safely as well as a fair amount of luck.

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