Steve Fossett is Missing as of 9/4/07

[HanzoSteel]

Was very lucky to have found anything, year gone by or a forest fire and it probably woulda all been gone.

 

[LRNAD90]

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

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/steve.fossett.search/index.html

 

[BIGdaddy]

what a trip.

Now, where was the original place they were looking? wasn't it in the desert?

is the mammoth lakes area near there? Seems like the wreckage pretty far from a place to hold his land speed record attempt...and it seems very unlikely that someone would "come across" his belongings...weird.

I think he may have said that(that he was going to the desert), steered off course, jumped from the plane once he set the controls somehow, sending the plane into the mountain while he was floating down on his parachute.

thats my call, for whatever reason. Shock value, Debt avoidance, etc.

I'll bet the searchers feel pretty good knowing that if the wreckage had been in the area they had searched in, they probably would have found it.

 

[Terracoma]

Question:

If the money is indeed Fossett's, why would he carry so much cash with him if he were only going on a scouting trip out-and-back from the same airport?

$1,005 (or whatever the actual amount is) seems like a lot of carry cash......

 

[Purple People Eater]

Question:

If the money is indeed Fossett's, why would he carry so much cash with him if he were only going on a scouting trip out-and-back from the same airport?

$1,005 (or whatever the actual amount is) seems like a lot of carry cash......

Eh, it's Steve Fossett. That's like me carrying $6.

 

[durango_60]

Question:

If the money is indeed Fossett's, why would he carry so much cash with him if he were only going on a scouting trip out-and-back from the same airport?

$1,005 (or whatever the actual amount is) seems like a lot of carry cash......

This is Steve Fosset we are talking about, that's just a little walking around money...

 

[ntsqd]

Question:

If the money is indeed Fossett's, why would he carry so much cash with him if he were only going on a scouting trip out-and-back from the same airport?

$1,005 (or whatever the actual amount is) seems like a lot of carry cash......

It might to you and I, but I once worked for a fellow who, along with his brother, inherited a major aluminum sheet metal supplier during WWII. His normal walking around money was $1000-$1500. That was pocket change to him. I don't see anything unusual in this. Prior to meeting this fellow I might have, bit not now.

 

[adventureduo]

Yep, my gramps walks around with hundo's like that too.

 

[Christian P.]

what a trip.

Now, where was the original place they were looking? wasn't it in the desert?

is the mammoth lakes area near there? Seems like the wreckage pretty far from a place to hold his land speed record attempt...and it seems very unlikely that someone would "come across" his belongings...weird.

I think he may have said that(that he was going to the desert), steered off course, jumped from the plane once he set the controls somehow, sending the plane into the mountain while he was floating down on his parachute.

thats my call, for whatever reason. Shock value, Debt avoidance, etc.

I'll bet the searchers feel pretty good knowing that if the wreckage had been in the area they had searched in, they probably would have found it.

yes it crossed my mind too. Why wasn't the wallet in the plane?

The suspense continues...

 

[paulj]

...Why wasn't the wallet in the plane?

The suspense continues...

My guess is that he had the wallet in pocket. In one way or another his body was separated from the crash, dismembered by animals, and any clothing and contents distributed around the area.

 

[BIGdaddy]

My guess is that he had the wallet in pocket. In one way or another his body was separated from the crash, dismembered by animals, and any clothing and contents distributed around the area.

now, they didn't say (or didn't read) that the sweater was torn apart or bloodstained, did they?

I wonder if he discarded his sweater once he walked out of a certain elevation/terrain to keep weight down?


you can tell i fully believe he's alive, can't you!?...lol.

 

[Streakerfreak]

now, they didn't say (or didn't read) that the sweater was torn apart or bloodstained, did they?

I wonder if he discarded his sweater once he walked out of a certain elevation/terrain to keep weight down?


you can tell i fully believe he's alive, can't you!?...lol.

I was thinking the same thing when I read about the sweater.

 

[FlyNdrive]

now, they didn't say (or didn't read) that the sweater was torn apart or bloodstained, did they?

I wonder if he discarded his sweater once he walked out of a certain elevation/terrain to keep weight down?


you can tell i fully believe he's alive, can't you!?...lol.

BBC is reporting that there was human and animal hair on the sweatshirt. They had an expert that said that there was a high probability that animals may have separated the body from the wreckage. I saw pictures of the wreckage and IMO there is no way any pilot would of survived. The engine was over 100 ft from the wreckage.

-Ben

 

[Streakerfreak]

Looks like they found some remains.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fossett_search

 

[FlyNdrive]

Stolen From Assosiated Press

NTSB: Remains found at Steve Fossett wreckage site
51 minutes ago

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say they have found body parts amid the wreckage of a missing adventurer's airplane in the mountains of eastern California.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that searchers found enough at the crash site of Steve Fossett's plane to provide coroners with DNA.

National Transportation Safety Board acting Chairman Mark Rosenker won't say exactly what searchers found. But he says it was not surprising how little they uncovered, considering how long it had been since the crash.

Fossett was 63 when he vanished a little more than a year ago.