Search Under Way for Adventurer Steve Fossett

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.04.07 | 3:15 PM ET

Searchers are looking for a plane belonging to Steve Fossett, known widely as the first person to fly around the globe solo in a balloon. “Fossett took off in the single engine Bellanca at 8:45 a.m. Monday at a private airstrip in western Nevada and didn’t return as scheduled,” the AP reports. He reportedly didn’t file a flight plan.