Quote from the National, is interesting.
Relatives of the victims said they felt Mr Kollar was partly responsible for the accident. He was twice convicted of breaching safety standards while running a ballooning business in New Zealand.
Records released in New Zealand show that his firm was subject to 15 official complaints over 12 years up to 2003. In one incident, in 1995, three people died.
Mr Kollar has claimed that he was the victim of a vendetta by the New Zealand aviation authorities.