Posted on 10/01/2008 10:19:36 AM PDT by jazusamo
Items belonging to Steve Fossett, an aviator who's been missing for over a year, have been found by a California couple in the woods.
The couple was hiking in Mammoth Lakes, California, when they found FAA ID cards belonging to Steve Fossett - and police are saying the cards are not forged.
A search of the area has not turned up any further evidence of the pilot.
Steve Fossett, the commodities trader turned record-breaking aviator, was declared legally dead in February of this years, five months after he vanished while flying in Nevada.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
Not unusual for lost-and-dying people to start dropping personal stuff randomly (clothing included), as they become increasingly irrational due to psychological and/or physiological breakdown.
‘bears/wolves already got the body
Is it possible those cute and cuddly animals have adopted Fossett and are nursing him back to health? ‘
No, that’s not possible, because the bears/wolves migrated to Alaska. Then Sarah Palin shot them.
There ya go!! That's what I think, too!!
“Is an FAA Card kinda like a driver’s license?”
Yes and unless he had just before he disapeared had applied for a new one it is nothing but thick paper and no picture.
They said on Fox that they weren’t sure the sweat shirt was his (it sounded like it was found a little ways from the cards).
susie
“wolves already got the body”
Can’t be, the whackos claim there haven’t been any wolves in California in 100 years.
I can personally vouch that there were wolves in the upper Kings Canyon area in the 1950s.
Thanks, things keep changing. The updated FNC piece says ten $100 bills and the first one said a small amount of cash. LOL! One K is more than a small amount to me. :)
“The updated FNC piece says ten $100 bills and the first one said a small amount of cash”
Sounds like the media experts forgot to mention that the items found were in a wallet!
Those items would have been washed in a wide area in the spring thaw from that moutainous area.
Would you believe a cheap divorce?
That’s a distinct possibility. This whole thing is bizarre, hopefully they’ll turn up more with the new search.
No kidding! I thought—small amount of cash...3 $1 bills and some lint!
susie
Here is some really interesting updated information, including the name of the person who found the items.
Thanks for linking that. It is interesting and gives a decent location, going to start checking maps and Google earth.
Yes, yes, but did they find the.... INTERNET?
Well here you go:
The interesting thing is that everything is almost in a perfect straight line. Smith Valley, NV. Go directly south of that and you have Mono Lake, CA. Directly south of that is Mammath Lakes, CA. The last two are on Highway 395.
It’s also odd that ten $100 bills (if we can believe the reports) were found in one location. Wouldn’t bills be scattered far and wide? If not from a plane crash, what about the wind?
Oh, the Flying-M ranch, where Fossett took off, is near Smith Valley, NV. Also close to Yerington, NV.
bkmark thx
I’ve been through that country many times on 395 and many years ago fished Convict, June and Mammoth lakes, it’s really rough mountainous country.
I would think the bills had to be in a wallet or something else to have not been blown six ways to Sunday.
That being just out of the original search area is logical because he wasn’t supposed to be going into the Sierras, as I recall. I would bet they’ll find the wreckage somewhere in the area.
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