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| Plane carrying aviation adventurer Steve Fossett missing |
| 2007-09-05 |
| A small plane carrying aviation adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing since Monday night, federal officials said Tuesday. Fossett took off in the single engine Bellanca at 8:45 a.m. (1545 GMT) Monday at a private airstrip on a ranch in western Nevada and did not return as scheduled. A friend reported him missing, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Maryland. "The Civil Air Patrol is looking for him. One problem is he doesn't appear to have filed a flight plan," Gregor told The Associated Press. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 He's dead, Jim. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-09-05 19:16 |
| #4 look in Barksdale, next to the B52. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-09-05 13:59 |
| #3 The plane took off from a private airstrip on Barron Hilton's ranch, after it had been checked out by his personal mechanic to look at possible land speed trial locations. He left his sat phone behind, flew low and didn't trigger a transponder signal, nor give off a satellite signal upon impact. FOX also said this area is used by the military to train as it resembles Afghanistan, and the National Guard is looking with sophisticated technology. Just seems like there should be more to the story with all these wealthy pilots, as the pictures of Fossett almost always include Branson. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2007-09-05 13:49 |
| #2 A flight plan, though not necessary by law, is a good thing. Even a flight notification to a friend or associate is good. At the very least, it is a courtesy to your potential rescuers. Knowing your destination helps. And if you give position reports to the FAA flight service station every 30 minutes, you really narrow down the search area. Knowing where you are going for, say, a 300 mile trip makes the search down to a strip, say 20 miles wide x 300 miles long, or 6000 sq miles. Not knowing where you went makes it a circle of at least 300 mile radius, or 283,000 sq miles. I have been on searches like that. Pilots with no notification to anyone of their plans pi$$ me off. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-09-05 08:36 |
| #1 And Guam Senator Mark Forbes to receive treatment for cancer in the Philippines, ala 1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-09-05 01:59 |