Web searchers may have found Fossett’s missing plane

Geek.com ^ | 9/13/07 | Doug Osborne

[Route66]

We’ll see, but it looks more like a rock formation to me.

[advertising guy]

Maj Ed Dames of Coast to Coast fame remote viewed this too.Declared the plane crashed and Fossett died..He also said if he is wrong,he will quit remote viewing

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Oh.

[paul51]

looks to intact to be a plane on a mountain side

[Mr. Brightside]

Buckhead?

[Ramius]

On the surface, that looks like a survivable crash.

Considering that a Citabria is mainly wood sticks and fabric... any crash isn't going to leave much. But hoping against hope, maybe he pulled off a landing.

[ExSES]

Is that a large cross near the plane? A signal?

Old crash sites are typically marked with a large X so that future searches won't waste time on them. They do tend to get worn from weather and, the X marks are renewed IF someone gets around to it....

[ZGuy]

My brother in law destroyed my Stinson on takeoff and it definitely didn’t have any 90 degrees angles you could have spotted. On the other hand I would suspect that Fossett would have used his skills to make sure the impact occurred with the minimum of speed, but if that blob at the nose is a big rock that he hit, I can imagine the wings and tail still being intact.

[marron]

most of the immages on Google Earth are months if not years old.

That was my first thought. I'm not familiar with "Mechanical Turk" but google-earth photos are often several years old. The photo of my house, for example, is at least 3 or 4 years old, not showing some changes that we've made in the last few years. So finding someone who went down in the last few days doesn't sound right.

[PAR35]

Declared the plane crashed and Fossett died.

That's a pretty safe guess at this point. The plane obviously wouldn't still be in the air, and heat and dehydration would have taken it's toll by now.

[papasmurf]

I see no ground disturbance around it. It would have had to come in straight down, and the wings are still holding their shape. The image doesn’t appear to fit the image of a crash site.

I think he slammed into a mountain side, and, for all practical purposes, disintegrated. That could explain the lack of a crash site debris field, no signal from the ELT, and no signal from his watch.

Still Praying and hoping.

[So Cal Rocket]

Shhhhh!

[Psycho_Bunny]

What they seem to have found is Christ...wearing a propellor hat and a crucifix....with his arms outstretched for a hug.

[Charlespg]

I heard something to the effect that over 100 unlocated planes some dating back to WWII are thought to be in the search area,don’t know if this true but properly so given the rugged terrain

[VaBthang4]

No trailing debris...slide/skid...I dunno, but definitely worth a look.

[FReepaholic]

...Not to pour cold water on this issue, but most of the immages on Google Earth are months if not years old....

New satellite images of the area were done just for this search.

[TheThirdRuffian]

That sure looks like a high-wing plane of some kind.

Probably just a SuperCub flying pot that didn’t make it, though.

[johnny7]

I found something that looks like a boat...

[em2vn]

If it’s a cross on public land there will soon be a federal judge involved.

[em2vn]

The plane he was in was described as an acrobatic plane. Are they made of sticks and fabric?