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Article: Fossett's last flight; Presumed dead: Adventurer Steve Fossett failed to return from a routine flight last September.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2008
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Byline: Charles Legge
QUESTION Has any trace of Steve Fossett or his aircraft ever been found?AMERICAN adventurer Steve Fossett made a fortune in the financial servicesindustry, spending it on a quest for world records, including five non-stopcircumnavigations of the Earth, as a longdistance solo balloonist, a sailor andsolo pilot of fixed-wing aircraft.
At 8.45am on Monday, September 3, 2007, he took off from Flying M Ranch privateairstrip near Smith Valley, Nevada, 30 miles south of Yerington, on a pleasureflight in a Bellanca Super Decathlon singleengine aircraftand failed to return.
Two-dozen planes of the Civil Air Patrol were involved in ...