Put everything away….get on the radio…. we're going down! Hot air balloon pilot and Birmingham, Michigan businessman Scott Lorenz issued those commands as he and his two crew members swayed and tilted dangerously close to a mountainside near the Great Wall in China last October.

Unexpected winds were so perilous that Lorenz's only option was to let the air out of his balloon and fall 200 feet to the ground….hard. Real hard………..