Steve Fossett is Missing as of 9/4/07

[FurthurOnTheFly]

Ah ha! :archaeolo

 

[TheRoadie]

Road Trip!

 

[MaddBaggins]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/fossett.discovery/index.html

Another article.

 

[Trail Monkey]

my brother recently purchased one of Steve's gliders. 80 foot wing span and self powered. Very Very cool.. Steve had alot of nice toys..

 

[JJackson]

Just seen that on the news.

 

[adventureduo]

Good. Hopefully they'll find him. Dead or alive, at least they'll find him. Glad the guy stumbled upon the ID and cash.

 

[Scenic WonderRunner]

Oh Shoot!


............now I want a self propelled Glider......... with an 80 foot wing span!




(now just where is my self propelled glider smiley when I need him>?!!!!!)




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[kcowyo]

Possible wreckage spotted?

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[FurthurOnTheFly]

Yes, the plot thickens!

 

[LRNAD90]

They think they may have located wreckage of the plane about 1 Kilometer from where the papers were found, supposedly going back today..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431605,00.html

 

[FlyNdrive]

Stolen from Associated Press

Rescue crews find wreckage of Fossett's plane

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rescue crews have found the wreckage of a small plane in eastern California mountains that appears to be the one piloted by millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday.

The NTSB said the small airplane found on Wednesday "appears to be the aircraft piloted by Steve Fossett."

The safety board did not say anything in a statement about finding any remains of Fossett's body.

Fossett, 63, vanished in his single-engine Bellanca airplane after taking off from a private airstrip in Nevada in September 2007.

The wreckage was located about 10,000 feet up the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, California. The NTSB said it has sent an investigator to the accident site.

The fact that safety board officials were dispatched to the scene and would comment publicly on the plane indicates a strong likelihood that it was Fossett's.

Despite weeks of extensive land and air searches after Fossett disappeared, no wreckage was found, and he was declared legally dead in February after investigators concluded that his airplane was destroyed in a fatal accident.

But a hiker in a remote area of California this week found two of his aviation identification cards.

The cards and a sweatshirt were found in a remote part of Madera County in the eastern Sierras between Yosemite National Park and the Nevada border.
Police in California said on Wednesday that more than 30 search teams were being formed to comb the mountainous area for the wreckage in coming days ahead of a potential snowfall.

(Reporting by John Crawley, writing by Deborah Charles, editing by Philip Barbara)

 

[imagodave]

Wow...they found the wreckage, with the engine 100' away, but no remains of him.....

 

[SLOwag]

The Mammoth Times

...a little more detail on the search area for those of you who know the back country in that area.

http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/view/94652/1/

 

[James86004]

We took a class in Wilderness First Aid, and it was taught by a Civil Air Patrol Search and Rescue guy. He said plane crashes can be so hard to find, and if it is a hard crash (like they were lost in the fog and slammed into the mountainside), the biggest pieces left are typically the size of a potato chip. If there was a lot of fuel on board, there was a lot of fire.

He told us because of Steve Fossett, large portions of Nevada are mapped much better than they were.

 

[adventureduo]

It's confirmed, they have found the plane wreckage.