Summary
QUESTION Has any trace of Steve Fossett or his aircraft ever been found? AMERICAN adventurer Steve Fossett made a fortune in the financial services industry, spending it on a quest for world records, including five non-stop circumnavigations of the Earth, as a longdistance solo balloonist, a sailor and solo pilot of fixed- wing aircraft.
At 8.45am on Monday, September 3, 2007, he took off from Flying M Ranch private airstrip near Smith Valley, Nevada, 30 miles south of Yerington, on a pleasure flight in a Bellanca Super Decathlon singleengine aircraft -- and failed to return.See the full content of this document
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Fossett's Last Flight ; Answers to Correspondents
Two-dozen planes of the Civil Air Patrol were involved in the search, as well as experts from the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and National Transportation Safety Board.
The latest digital imaging system, Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance (ARCHER), was used to take photos o...See the full content of this document
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