Steve Fossett remains found at crash site
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- The remains of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett have been found.
They were in burned out plane on the side of a mountain in California’s Inyo National Forest.
“It appeared to me, just looking at the pictures, it was a head-on crash into the side of the mountain, into a rock,” Madera County sheriff John Anderson is quoted as saying in the Toronto Star.
“The wreckage of the Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon plane was located Wednesday night, two days and 400 metres away from where a hiker found $1,000 in $100 bills and Fossett’s withered pilot’s licence,” says the story.
Fossett, 63 when he died, took off alone from the Flying-M Ranch in Yerington, Nevada, in a blue-and-white single-engine two-seater, says the New York Times, adding:
“The ranch is a retreat for wealthy anglers and fliers. On Monday, a hiker, Preston Morrow, came across several of Mr. Fossett’s identification cards, money and a tattered fleece pullover in some bushes in the Mammoth Lakes region.”
He was the first person to fly solo around the world without refuelling, and the first to take a hot-air balloon solo around the world.
Fossett, who went missing in little more than a year ago, was declared officially dead by a Chicago court in February.
Toronto Star - , October 3, 2008
New York Times - Remains Are Found at Site of Fossett Plane Crash, October 2, 2008
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