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Fossett's Plane Found

Posted by timothy on from the last-word dept.

otter42 writes "Sadly, it looks as if all those crazies claiming Steve Fossett was still alive were wrong after all. The NY Times has the confirmation that wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca Citabria was found. Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related."

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  1. He's still kicking! by sharp3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No body was found, and was purportedly "eaten by animals". Conspiracy theories live on!

    1. Re:He's still kicking! by Ngarrang · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not saying I think (or care) one way or another but it is conceivable he used a parachute...I mean...this is Steve Fossett after all.

      So, maybe Fosset and DB Cooper are not kicking back a few drinks with Elvis on some lush pacific island paradise?

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    2. Re:He's still kicking! by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it's pretty obvious what happened here: Fossett was teleported out of his plane by the crew of a Starship from the future that used the "slingshot around the Sun" technique to travel back through time in order to retrieve him. They then took him back to their time in order to speak with an alien race that was accidentally destroying the Earth in its attempt to communicate with any daredevil billionaires that might be on the planet. Unfortunately for them, the Earth no longer used money, so there were no billionaires available, hence the need to fetch Fossett.

      The evidence points so clearly to this scenario that there must be some sort of vast conspiracy covering it up, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment that would result from revealing that two of the Starship's crew members were able to infiltrate a nuclear wessel undetected.

    3. Re:He's still kicking! by funwithBSD · · Score: 2, Funny

      That is sooo totally too complicated.

      Occam's razor says that they brought him back to deal with the Grand Nagus after Kirk lost Earth in a Dabo game.

      (not his fault, hard to tear your shirt in a Dabo game)
         

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    4. Re:He's still kicking! by hurfy · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Not to mention the questions that would come up when the wife says, "I wonder what happened to the $1000 he always kept in his pocket, just in case he needed some cash.""

      Well....since they haven't found the pocket...I could think of an out ;)

      Gotta be him tho, no other small plane pilot has $1000 left in his pocket after filling the tank for takeoff....

    5. Re:He's still kicking! by LingNoi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why do people think that small airplane pilots need parachutes?

      I don't know myself. Well lets get back to discussing the story about a rich pilot that died in a small aeroplane crash..

  2. Dollars to Donuts I say... by clonan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related.

    Dollars to donuts the CRASH was gravity related...the engine/fuel is just a side problem!

    1. Re:Dollars to Donuts I say... by curiosity · · Score: 4, Funny

      Exactly. Gravity is just an unproven theory. Intelligent Falling is clearly to blame.

  3. Wrong about Fossett, wrong about Reiser... by nweaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are the random internet nutcases right about anymore?

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    1. Re:Wrong about Fossett, wrong about Reiser... by fastest+fascist · · Score: 2, Funny

      See, this is exactly the problem with the Internet. Now that anyone can be a paranoid crackpot on-line, the venerable, traditional lunatic fringe is being devalued by all these crowd-sourced, anonymous cyber-nuts. Used to be, you could trust a conspiracy theory to be utterly impervious to disproof by reasoned argument - Who shot Kennedy, Elvis' faked death etc etc. Now these dilettantes are messing it all up.

      The world ain't what it used to be.

  4. Wacky conspiracy theory by Puffy+Director+Pants · · Score: 3, Funny

    It took them this long to find the plane because they had to fake up a wreck!

  5. Occam's razor... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it is becoming clearer that Fossett survived the crash, and was shortly adopted by a bear, and is currently living in a cave, having forgotten his human status due to traumatic brain injury.

    Maybe you need to stop being so dismissive of people who think he is still alive.

    1. Re:Occam's razor... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it is becoming clearer that Fossett survived the crash, and was shortly adopted by a bear, and is currently living in a cave, having forgotten his human status due to traumatic brain injury.

      *sigh* More of this? You he's-alive-and-adopted-by-bears people are crazy nutjobs. It's the he's-alive-and-adopted-by-wolves people who have their fingers on the pulse of truth. Wake up!

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  6. Re:Check your own logic before calling others craz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My guess would be that "someone" would have been something like a raccoon or a buzzard.

    That certainly explains why when I'm killing rats and spiders they keep dropping gold and broadswords.

  7. From TFA... by IronMagnus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rusty Aimer, chief executive of Aviation Experts

    I hope this guy doesn't own a gun... get it?

  8. GTA: Inyo by jbeaupre · · Score: 3, Funny

    Images of Grand Theft Airplane: Inyo National Forest. Poor dude getting jacked at 10,000 ft.

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    1. Re:GTA: Inyo by idontgno · · Score: 3, Funny

      Im Inyo National Forest crashin an burnin. kthxbye

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    2. Re:GTA: Inyo by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Images of Grand Theft Airplane: Inyo National Forest. Poor dude getting jacked at 10,000 ft.

      Or The X-Files "Max", "I think he caught the connecting flight."

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  9. Re:My experience that day by LotsOfPhil · · Score: 3, Funny

    because...
    Haikus are easy
    but sometimes they don't make sense
    Refrigerator

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  10. Re:That's really a shame. by Ashbory · · Score: 2, Funny

    So true, just like when they found Amelia Earhart's plane last year. Major news outlets didn't think it was newsworthy enough to run the story at all.

  11. 1 foot = 3.04 metres? by BandoMcHando · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hmm.... I'm particularly loving the math skills of the International Herald Tribune's journalists.

    Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.

  12. Re:Fuel / Engine Related? by onkelonkel · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was the deadly Cumulo-Granitus cloud.

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  13. Re:Simpler still: by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you Captain Obvious! You have saved the day again!

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  14. Re:Simpler still: by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    He didn't save the plane.

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  15. Re:Fuel / Engine Related? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 2, Funny

    That reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the pilot (looking out the wind shield) says to the copilot:
    "Say, what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?"