[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

[LucyT]

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

[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.

[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.

[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!

[bmwcyle]

Hand Salute...................two

[yldstrk]

I think it’s wierd too......

[skr]

One used to have to wait for years and now it’s only for 6 months?

[RonF]

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.

[Tanniker Smith]

That’s a real shame. First sir Edmund Hillary and now Fossett (well, okay, Fossett disappeared first, actually).

[My hearts in London - Everett]

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?

[RDTF]

This is a heartbreak. Hoping he didn’t suffer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.