Adventurer Steve Fossett declared dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_re_us/obit_fossett ^

[skeeter]

RIP to a dying breed.

[traumer]

call me paranoid - but I still think there is something fishy about his disappearance.

With his $$$ he could fake his death...

[spanalot]

its amazing that a plane crash in desert can get this lost

[vladimir998]

With all his money why would he want to?

[tioga]

Why?

[LucyT]

Sad. I watched him set up and launch one of his around the world balloon attempts.

[mcshot]

I read a speculative post somewhere that he’s on his way to a distant planet via a secret gov’t program.

[Bender2]

Re: But Fossett was on a pleasure flight when he vanished and not looking for a dry lake bed to use as a surface on which to set the world land speed record, as was initially reported, according to his wife's petition.

Don't know why, but that smells fishy to me along with the rush to declare him dead less than six months after he disappeared.

[traumer]

I don’t know.
Perhaps to start a new life under a new identity somewhere else...

[alfa6]

Ping

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[cripplecreek]

Perhaps to start a new life under a new identity somewhere else...

Fosset wasn't the type to go into hiding. He loved the spotlight of his high profile flights.

[Inyo-Mono]

...after taking off in a single-engine plane from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev., heading toward Bishop, Calif.

My home territory. Sad they never found his plane, but this is remote, wide open country with mountains and deserts and a very sparse population living between Yerington and Bishop.

[GAB-1955]

No, it’s not amazing. It’s not in the desert; it’s in mountains, and those are very hard to search.

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks Alfa6.

Don't know how his wreckage couldn't be found......unless he changed his course serendipitously.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I don’t see how this is a rush. Even with him being declared dead today, it often takes months to settle an estate. It could very well be that his wife needs this issue to be resolved so that she can remain financially stable.

[Dionysius]

...and his fortune is declared whose?

[Tax-chick]

Fossett, who was paunchy for most of his life, also climbed some of the world's best-known peaks ...

Wow, it was really nice of them to bring that up!

[stentorian conservative]

He’s on strike. . .in Galt’s Gulch.

[TaMoDee]

This was a small plane. There are very steep washes in the desert that could hide this aircraft. You could walk within 20 feet and never see it. During the intense search for his plane AC’s were found that were lost in WWII.
Someday somebody will come across his remains.
May he RIP!