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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. My experience that day by mbone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The day Steve Fossett was lost I was driving from San Francisco
    to Las Vegas by way of Barstow. Just after Barstow we entered one of those huge desert storm systems, a line of thunderheads
    stretching North and South, and all of a sudden it rained so hard
    and the wind blew so hard that it was hard controlling the car,
    even when we slowed to 20 MPH. Soon after we left the storm, I
    heard about the disappearance of Steve Fossett on the radio.

    I have been convinced ever since that moment that that storm
    killed him. I cannot see how a light aircraft could have flown
    through it, and yet it came up pretty suddenly. Looking at the
    map, I might still be right.