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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* Search Under Way for Adventurer Steve Fossett
* The Search for Steve Fossett: Why Are They Finding So Many ‘Uncharted Plane Wrecks’?
* Branson on Fossett: ‘He Truly Was the Adventurer’s Adventurer’
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
John M. Edwards 02.18.08 | 3:37 PM ET
Hi Mike:
I prefer to think of Steve Fossett as missing, presumed alive and running a scuba shop, or perhaps standing over the Great Australian Bight looking out over the mighty ocean dreaming of the hidden continent.
In the same way, I prefer to think of the Kennedys, shying away from the media camera and the slow drift of world events, as having flown off into the future, in a spaceship resembling a glass helicopter with a joystick.
Everybody should read Peter Fleming’s “Brazilian Adventure” and his search for the missing Colonel Faucett in the Amazon.
Anyway, here’s a poem for Steve Fosset: “Whatever happened to the traveling salesmen of yore/With one foot on your grave and one foot on your door.”
I bet on some of my extended trips, both my friends and family were surprised I was still alive, when I called periodically, then eventually actually showed up on their doorstep. What I was selling, was, nothing else but the world at a discount.