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Pensioner tells of terror as Virgin hot air balloon with 14 passengers crash-landed in garden of her £700,000 Hampshire country house

"Skydiver goes for 120,000ft record fall"

Steve Truglia, we salute you (you can have a 'rock' after you've landed safely!).

It will be a shame to see Joseph Kittinger Jr's 1960 record of 102,800 feet to be beaten after all these years, though.

On a pedantic note, cracking the 770 mph sound barrier might be a tad easier up there - the speed of sound is slower where the atmostphere is thinner.