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Goodyear Airship Bursts Into Flames
An airship pilot died Sunday when the dual engines on his Goodyear airship burst into flames during a landing in Germany, Spiegel reported. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/13/blimp-crash-in-germany-claims-pilots-life/#ixzz1PB28I8sy (www.foxnews.com) More...a guess it's not a goodyear
true to a captains code, passengers off first, captain last. in this case he like a gentleman went down with his ship!
Why would he climb after the passengers got out?
It climbs paul, because it is a baloon and when ballast-or weight is removed the baloon climbs as a result.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002935/Pilot-killed-Goodyear-blimp-plunges-ground-flames-Germany.html