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Steve Fossett Declared Dead

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rest-in-peace dept.

Parallax Blue writes "Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane. The self-made business tycoon, who in 2002 became the first person to circle the world solo in a balloon, was last seen Sept. 3 after taking off in a single-engine plane from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev., heading toward Bishop, Calif. He was 63."

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  1. Re:The man died with open eyes doing what he loved by Seumas · · Score: -1, Troll

    The guy was a rich douche playing with his toys, which wound up costing a lot of people a lot of time and money and concern. Well, except for the cable news outlets. If he had been young, pretty, blond and female, he'd be the subject of hourly updates and investigations on cable news for the next four years.

    Good for him, doing stuff he wanted to do, but he wasn't Louis Pascal or anything and I'm not going to have any particular sympathy for the guy.

  2. Steve Fossett is alive by asCii88 · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's with Elvis and Punk

  3. Re:OK That's it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And who gives a fuck about John Donne except freshman English majors?