Name: Bid to cross Atlantic with balloons sinks
Uploaded: 2013-09-13T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Up, up and away - but not for long. Jonathan Trappe set off at dawn from the US with 370 helium balloons in a bid to cross the Atlantic. But technical issues forced him to land over Newfoundland.

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Up, up and away – but not for long. Jonathan Trappe set off at dawn from the US with 370 helium balloons in a bid to cross the Atlantic. But technical issues forced him to land over Newfoundland.