R.I.P. Steve Fossett
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.18.08 | 9:33 AM ET
A Chicago-based judge declared Steve Fossett legally dead Friday, five months after the adventurer and his single-engine Bellanca disappeared during a flight from a private airstrip in Western Nevada.
In November, Fossett’s wife Peggy had petitioned the court to declare him dead, overcoming “the legal rule that people missing for fewer than seven years are presumed to be alive,” reports the Chicago Tribune. Many major news sources have coverage; the AP posted its video obituary on YouTube:
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