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.
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Peter 09.06.07 | 12:46 PM ET
I think he was looking for a good spot for a breaking the spead limit by car. But I can not imagine that he did not file a flight plan. Anyways, I think he is just hiding out in a cave. I heared that he has a watch with a tracking device. So if he would be somewhere out there in the wild the search teams would have already found him.
Jeanne Cox 10.16.07 | 3:14 PM ET
I cannot imagine that such an experienced pilot/adventurer with his track record can allow a plane to crash and take his life.
Also, given there was an emergency with the plane, he should have activated the transponder/gps or his watch.
I’m shocked that also with all of the modern technology today, ‘they’ have not found/rescued his plane/him.
What a sad day for the explorer in all of us!
pokerto 12.30.07 | 7:51 PM ET
what a pitty for this crazy man! people like him, are really rare today….r.i.p.