New Leads in Search for Fossett

WJLA 7 DC ^ | Sept 25, 2007 | BRENDAN RILEY

[Badeye]

Insurance scam, perhaps?

Who knows.

[holden]

You're obviously on top of it in most every way ('cepn 'course that f-key, which appears to be fixed now, too)!

Best regards,
HF

[hattend]

The original report when he went down said he was wearing an ELT on his watch (Breitling has such a watch).

The fact that it hasn’t been activated tells me he didn’t survive the crash/forced landing. :-(

[BurbankKarl]

I heard the theory was he wanted to go out like Amelia Earhart

[reagan_fanatic]

That made me think he had a horrible crash and the responder was destroyed and he was killed then.

That's the most likely scenario, IMO. I pray for the best for Mr. Fossett, but I don't hold out much hope that he's still with us.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

It was in two Tahoe/Reno area papers yesterday, yet not local insight, just the same AP feed in both.

Tahoe Daily Tribune / New info prompts search near Death Valley for adventurer Fossett

Reno-Gazette Journal / Fossett searchers ready big weekend push

[jwparkerjr]

re: I heard the theory was he wanted to go out like Amelia Earhart

I imagine it’s pretty tough to find Japanese soldiers these days to capture you, hold you prisoner, kill you and bury you in an unmarked grave on some desolate island somewhere halfway around the world.

[shield]

I wasn’t aware of that watch. Yes, I believe you MUST be RIGHT. Wonder when they’ll find the crash site with his remains?

[The Bass Player]

That’s right. I’d forgotten about that dif between VFR and IFR. I’m a civvy as far as aviation is concerned, lol. When I was 17, I took and passed a year long Aviation Education course in High School, one of the few classes that actually held my overall interest. At the end of the year, we all went up one at a time in a small plane with a pilot, taking off from a small, local “windsock” airfield, the scariest part was when the Pilot let me land on my own. I hope I never have to anything like that again, because, looking back now at the age of 43, I still shiver, lol.

[Lost Dutchman]

I imagine it’s pretty tough to find Japanese soldiers these days to capture you, hold you prisoner, kill you and bury you in an unmarked grave on some desolate island somewhere halfway around the world.

Freepmail me and I will see what I can arrange. :^P

[jwparkerjr]

I know what you’re up to. Your gonna try and pass off a couple of illegal Mexican immigrants on me to do the job. I want real Japanese, no cheap imitations for me, thank you.

[Lost Dutchman]

ROFLMAO