Steve Fosset missing

[ccheese]

SEARCH FOR MISSING AVIATOR STEVE FOSSETT SCALED BACK
Monday, September 17, 2007



MINDEN, Nev. — The search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett
in the rugged and remote high Nevada desert was cut back on Monday.

The Civil Air Patrol, which had 20 planes and 60 searchers aloft over the
weekend, suspended further flights and left two planes and a small team on
standby at the airport here.

"We don't like to do that. It's against our nature to walk away from a
search," Maj. Cynthia Ryan of the Nevada CAP said. "But at some point you
have diminishing returns."

Ryan said volunteer CAP pilots in up to 28 planes made 245 flights searching
for Fossett, 63, who disappeared on Labor Day while flying his plane. The
search has covered an area twice the size of New Jersey.

The National Guard kept five helicopters on search duty — and many private
aircraft continue to operate out of hotel mogul Barron Hilton's 1 million-acre
Flying M Ranch, where Fossett had been staying.

Search and rescue crews on the ground also continued their efforts as the
search for Fossett entered its third week.

Maj. Ed Locke of the Nevada Air National Guard said the guard's helicopters
will continue flying and will be able to hover closer to the ground than the
CAP planes. He said tips have dropped off.

Lyon County Sheriff Allen Veil, whose county includes Hilton's ranch, said he's
observed the private search and has seen "a sense of optimism that Mr.
Fossett is still out there alive, and they're set on finding him."

But the sheriff also said it's possible that the organized search for Fossett
might turn up nothing and some hiker or hunter eventually will come across
the wreckage of Fossett's single-engine plane.

As the search continued on the edge of the Sierra in northern Nevada and
eastern California, comparisons were being made to the mystery of Amelia
Earhart's disappearance over the Pacific Ocean 70 years ago.

Ric Gillespie, leader of an effort this summer to find Earhart, who vanished in
July 1937 during an around-the-world flight attempt, said the comparisons
will continue to grow.

"We like to think that anything is findable with enough resources. But it could
turn into another Amelia Earhart situation," said Gillespie, head of The
International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, on Sunday.

"If they don't find something, the mystery element will grow and grow," he
said.

This from Fox News……

Charles

[timshatz]

That pretty much says it all.

[evangilder]

Sad.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Who knows maybe we are looking at this the wrong way and he did not want to be found, if you know what I mean.

Wierder things have happened.

[timshatz]

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

Who knows maybe we are looking at this the wrong way and he did not want to be found, if you know what I mean.

Wierder things have happened.

Like he walked away from it all? Possible. Actually, it would be a pretty smart way to do it.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Perhaps the plane will not be found is what I mean. Perhaps it never crashed and he is living happily down in Mexico...

Like I said it is probably not true and unfortunatly it was probably a crash but there are a lot of very wiered things in this whole story here.

[timshatz]

Considering he was a Wall Street type, maybe he was wiped out by the Sub-prime thing and needed a way to vanish.

In that case, Mexico is a good choice.

[Gnomey]

True it would be a possibility - stranger things have happened for sure. Still it is sad all the same.

[Haztoys]

Were he was at north west Nevada and north east California is very vast and rugged.. I own 400 acres just at the California/Nevada border... I could see him going down and have a hard time finding someone...That part of the country is the "Out Back of America" ...

I hope they find him...

[ccheese]

I'm with Adler.....Maybe he doesn't want to be found ? Other people have
done it.

Charles

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

Amelia Earhart has been speculated on too.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I just think there is too much unexplained.

[winganaprayer]

What really amazed me were the number of old, ucharted crash sites that were found during the search for Fossett. The last I heard, they found 6 old crash sites.

Fossett Teams Spot Uncharted Crash Sites

Hopefully, it will provide some 'closure' for a lot of families when they get time to identify the uncharted sites.

That's gotta be some kind of rough, desolate country.

-whatever

-Lou

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

Something good out of something bad.

Is that the P-38 pilot that survived that crash, winganaprayer?

[ccheese]

There was an article in Sunday's (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that his wife wants
the court to declare him "dead". Guess they want to settle the estate. I
suppose he's got a few buck laying about....

Charles