That is some serious shit - and is not limited to Canada.
Got a friend who is a shooter and was doing a flight course on balloons and was lucky to have Virgin Atlantic's main pilot as a trainer (was a neighbor and since retired).
But... an event came up where he needed a fully-qualified co-pilot (the VA trainer was not available for that date) and his co-pilot/trainer ended up crashing the friggin balloon and it caught fire - they were lucky to get out of the way before being burned to death.
This co-pilot was apparently the president of some balloon org and has since been suspended from flying balloons and there is still an enquiry going on. Meanwhile the shooter has elected to postone his course in flying balloons - the shock factor still exists
