Fears grow for party balloon priest
Updated on 24 April 2008
Hope is fading for a priest who vanished attempting to fly hundreds of miles supported by party balloons.
The 41-year-old Catholic has been missing since Sunday, when he lifted off from the Brazilian city of Paranagua wearing a helmet, an aluminium thermal flight suit, waterproof overalls and a parachute.
Less than an hour in to the flight Father Adelir de Carli told his support crew by satellite phone that he would not be able to complete the planned flight to the city of Dourados, 465 miles away, according to team member Jose Carlos Bom.
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