Weather defeats ambition. Check flight path before launch and use more balloons.

Iraqi adventurer Fareed Lafta, right, and Bend, Ore., gas station owner Kent Couch lift off Saturday, July 14, 2012, from Couch's gas station in Bend, Ore., as they attempt to fly some 360 miles to Montana. The flight is a warm-up for a future flight planned in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight (click title to entry - thank you)

By JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press

Published: Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 4:55 a.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 4:55 a.m.

...Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta were about seven hours into their flight Saturday when they descended, coming down near the community of Post, about 30 miles east of their starting point. But after they scrambled out of the contraption, it floated away, flight organizer Mark Knowles said....