In 2009 six-year-old Falcon Heene made headlines after supposedly climbing inside his father’s homemade helium balloon which subsequently became untethered and rapidly descended into the clouds.
Last month the incident was brought back into the public consciousness thanks to it being the subject of an episode of the Netflix series Trainwreck. The family, including Falcon who is now 22, all spoke of the traumatic experience and how the events of that day and the following days affected them.
