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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 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.

  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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  4. 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.

  5. 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. 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.

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

    It was the deadly Cumulo-Granitus cloud.

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