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Hikers find Steve Fossett belongings: report
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/1/08 | Jill Serjeant

Posted on 10/01/2008 11:43:05 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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21 posted on 10/01/2008 12:29:22 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady from the North")
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To: Badeye

Too many James Bond movies?


22 posted on 10/01/2008 12:30:23 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obama isn't just an empty suit, he's a suit-Bomb trying to sneak into the White House.)
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To: alfa6
Aloha alfa6!

Heard this on Fox earlier but was waiting for something more substantial or a thread to start up.

I noted before that Fossett may have changed his flight plan on a whim and the searches were all in the wrong areas. Mammoth Lake was in range so he might have chose to sightsee.

There's still the problem of finding the wreckage of the wood frame Citabria. I noticed that the Citaborca and the Citabria were the same but did both have fabric over wood?
23 posted on 10/01/2008 12:31:52 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: loungeSerf
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24 posted on 10/01/2008 12:36:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obama isn't just an empty suit, he's a suit-Bomb trying to sneak into the White House.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Mammoth Lakes Police Chief Randy Schienle told CNN that a sweatshirt and other identification possibly with Fossett's name on it had been found by hikers in the area.

This is in my neck of the woods.

25 posted on 10/01/2008 12:40:05 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
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To: GOP_Proud
I just finished re-reading the book after first reading it 20 years ago.

"Atlas Shrugged" remains one of my all-time favorites. I periodically run down and buy a new copy so that I can re-read it and pass it along to someone else.

I see that book as a blueprint for EVERYTHING we are seeing today. That makes Ayn Rand incredibly prescient and raises her several more notches in my esteem. She called it 50 years ago and it's happening now!!!

26 posted on 10/01/2008 12:41:06 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DustyMoment

She called it because she saw it happen in Russia when the Communists took over.


27 posted on 10/01/2008 12:41:54 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer
She called it because she saw it happen in Russia when the Communists took over.

Yes, I'm pretty familiar with her biography. I've read almost everything she wrote.

28 posted on 10/01/2008 12:52:32 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: BIGLOOK

From what I can tell the aircraft are one and the same.

The fact that some clothes of Fossett may have turned up tends to put my theory of flying into a hillside into the dumpster. Although he could have still crashed and been able to get away from the craft before it caught on fire.

Hopefully more will turn up in the next day or two. We shall see.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


29 posted on 10/01/2008 12:54:46 PM PDT by alfa6 (One mans magic is another mans engineering... L.L.)
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To: BIGLOOK

From reading the thread I see it referenced that he was flying a Bellanca Super Decathalon. from Wilipedia...

The Decathlon traces its lineage back to the Aeronca Champ, by way of the Citabria. Like the Citabria, the Decathlon features tandem seating and joystick controls. The fuselage and tail surfaces are constructed of welded metal tubing. The outer shape of the fuselage is created by a combination of wooden formers and longerons, covered with fabric. The cross-section of the metal fuselage truss is triangular, a design feature which can be traced all the way back to the earliest Aeronca C-2 design of the late 1920s.

Unless he went into the lake I would think something would turn up, eh?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


30 posted on 10/01/2008 1:00:09 PM PDT by alfa6 (One mans magic is another mans engineering... L.L.)
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Mammoth Lake


The stuff the hikers found was below the tree line. The ground searh will have to look up.
31 posted on 10/01/2008 1:14:56 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: NormsRevenge; All

AP reporting wreckage found after aerial search....no further info


32 posted on 10/01/2008 10:43:30 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: lainie

ping


33 posted on 10/01/2008 10:45:04 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

KTTV reported same during their newscast. Though the reporter seemed like he’d spent the afternoon at Ganga U. with the snowboarders.


34 posted on 10/02/2008 2:11:48 AM PDT by lainie
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To: Badeye

Fox reporting Fossett’s plane has been found.

Anderson said that it appears that Fossett plowed head-on into a mountainside.

“The crash looked to be so severe that I doubt if someone would have walked away from it,” said Anderson during a Thursday news conference. The engine was lying about 300 feet from the wings and the fuselage, which disintegrated on impact.


35 posted on 10/02/2008 8:45:05 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Satire - a heartbeat away from the truth!!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge; All
This just up on Yahoo...

Sheriff: Search teams find Fossett wreckage

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_re_us/fossett_search

36 posted on 10/02/2008 10:22:20 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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further topics:

Steve Fossett Items Found in Mammoth Lakes, CA: FAA ID Cards?
The Post Chronicle | October 1, 2008 | Mitch Marconi
Posted on 10/01/2008 10:19:36 AM PDT by jazusamo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095010/posts

Sheriff: Plane Wreckage Found in California Is Steve Fossett’s
Fox40 News | 10-02-2008
Posted on 10/02/2008 7:19:11 AM PDT by Dan Cooper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095740/posts

Officials Say Body Parts Found Among Steve Fossett’s Plane Wreckage
FOX News.com | October 2, 2008
Posted on 10/02/2008 4:39:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096214/posts


37 posted on 10/03/2008 1:29:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: KevinDavis
Ping!
38 posted on 10/03/2008 1:29:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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