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October 3, 2007
Search For Steve Fossett Called Off
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3681558&page=1
The U.S. Air Force has officially ended the Civil Air Patrol's search for explorer Steve Fossett, more than three weeks after he went missing during a single-engine plane flight, the Civil Air Patrol said Tuesday night.
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Three Weeks and Still No Sign of Steve FossettFossett disappeared Sept. 4 after failing to return to a private airstrip near Yerington, Nev. In the ensuing weeks, searchers used radar and planes to cover a 20,000-square-mile stretch of the desert surrounding the airstrip.Fossett's trail grew cold after two weeks of searching, but new evidence released last week by the Air Force, including high-tech radar trails, reignited hope that the aviator might be discovered. The search, which had been scaled back by the Air Force the week before, resumed over the weekend.
No trace of Fossett was found.
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 3, 2007 at 9:00 AM
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http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/02/steve_fossett_d.html
February 22, 2008
Friday
Steve Fossett declared dead
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)
Well known aviation adventurer Steve Fossett has been declared dead after months of searching for his Nevada crash site using every tool available in the modern search and rescue arsenal.
Steve has joined that small, select group of aviation icons who flew off into the sunset, never to be seen again.
Not a bad way for an aviator to go, actually.
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Perhaps he found Galt's Gulch.
Posted by Sturm at February 22, 2008 03:08 PM
Posted by: "Samizdata" on February 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM