Preparation is everything 

First balloon launch of 2013

They say preparaton is everything !

After a perfect flight, launching in Glenties Co. Donegal, the capsule passed Donegal Bay and flew over the Eniskillen Lake District, destination of the recent G8 before finally coming down on the Lietrim / Cavan border near the Marble Arch caves.

On retrieving the capsule I found the memory card in the camera was corrupted, due either to a cable being broken during descent of a fault in the card. I am currently running a scan and repair program to see if any images / video can be retrieved. 

The parachute seems to have got tangled during descent which probably caused the camera cable to snap during rapid descent  

Back to the drawing board !