The flight was said to have been undertaken at the time of the birth of Sultan Murad IV's daughter.

As Evliya Celebi wrote, Lagari proclaimed before launching his craft "O my sultan!

"; after ascending in the rocket, he landed in the sea, swimming ashore and joking "O my sultan!

"; he was rewarded by the Sultan with silver and the rank of sipahi in the Ottoman army.

The legend was addressed in an experiment by the television show MythBusters, on November 11, 2009, in the episode "Crash and Burn"; however, the team noted that Evliya Çelebi had not sufficiently specified the alleged design used by Lagâri Hasan and said that it would have been "extremely difficult" for a 17th-century figure, unequipped with modern steel alloys and welding, to land safely or even achieve thrust at all.