[MichaelApproved]

Did you see the fan blades in the pictures you linked to?

They’re chipped, cracked, and bent. That’s anything but happy.

I bet the balloon and, more importantly, the payload would indeed faze it.

[ceejayoz]

> They’re chipped, cracked, and bent.

After processing a hundred and fifty pounds or more of human being. If that plane had done so at 30k feet, it'd have been an entirely survivable emergency.

[MichaelApproved]

There’s a difference between survivable and happily mulching.