Industry experts fear that calls for all hot air balloons in the country to be checked immediately for safety issues will be damaging for the industry.
Investigators say that a hot air balloon which crashed in Carterton last month, killing all 11 people on board, may not have been air-worthy.
The Balloon Aviation Association says that's worrying for the industry.
Martyn Stacey says regardless of the panic within the industry, the country's biggest ballooning event - Balloons Over Wairarapa - will go ahead in a fortnight.
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