Posted on 02/15/2008 5:32:56 PM PST by traumer
Then you know that it may be years or even decades before his plane is found.
P.S. I love your “About” page!
Eagle Scout. Member of the BSA’s High Adventure Committee. I was at Philmont when he disappeared and it was a topic of conversation and prayer among all.
I’ve tried to explain the terrain and area to many people.
Thanks to the idiots in the media and Hollywood, everyone thinks that Nevada is as flat as Kansas, but with jackrabbits and tumbleweeds blowing along a surface of dust and sand.
I’ve tried to explain to people just how tight, high and unexplored many of those canyons are in that area, to no avail. The majority of people in the US really have no idea what northern Nevada looks like. Never will.
In Nevada, we discover plane wrecks from decades ago every couple of years. The mountains in Nevada positively eat planes - often without a trace until you’re on the ground, on the spot, in the correct light, at the right time of day. Even crashes of military aircraft can evade easy discovery for months and months. A B-17 crashed in the East Humboldt Mountains south of Wells, NV in WWII. It took the USAAC six months to find the wreckage of a big, 4-engine aluminum airplane there.
Even today, the wreckage is still there. You can’t see it until you climb up Weeks’ Canyon from Clover Valley, go a bit south into the bowl where the plane dropped, and then have the sun overhead at about 10 AM local time.
Only problem with that is their bodies along her sister Lauren were discovered from the crash.
That’s a real shame. First sir Edmund Hillary and now Fossett (well, okay, Fossett disappeared first, actually).
I used to live in Tonopah and would drive to Bishop on occasion. Very rugged on that border.
Wow. You lived in Tonopah? Pretty remote isn’t it? And the nearest “big city” city, Bishop, CA has a population of only 4,000.
It was wild. I was one of “those” guys on the range.
I know Dave. Unless you live in Northern Nevada or North Eastern California (near the NV border) folks have no idea how remote and rugged this area is. Thousands of square miles of basin and range; 10,000 foot “hills,” valleys and canyons with nary a soul living there.
As Art Bell would eloquently say, he is also trailing behind the Hale-Bopp Comet.
I don’t know much about this sort of thing but, I thought a person had to be missing for 7 years before they could be declared legally dead? Do you get to speed up the process if you’re a rich possible widow?
Wonder if had a heart attack, then crashed.
I’m with you - I thought it was 7 years, too.
I have gone out to clean up USAF crashes, even when you have a good spot Wingman), maps and a large ground team, it can up to a day to locate the crash site - and this in open desert (as in So Nv) - F-4s, F-15s and F-16s make a pretty good sized hole. (an F-15 is as big as a B-25)
A little bug-smasher is not going to leave much of a mark.
This is a heartbreak. Hoping he didn’t suffer.
RIP.
THEIR bodies...or just BODIES? LOL! I know. It’s silly. I’m no conspiracy theorist, except when it comes to The Klintoons.
Still, if I hadn’t of seen “them” with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have even brought it up. ;)
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