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Article: Adventurer Steve Fossett's Plane Missing
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- AP Online
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- September 5, 2007
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MINDEN, Nev. - Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who has cheated death time and again in his successful pursuit of aviation records, was missing Tuesday after taking off in a single-engine plane the day before to scout locations for a land-speed record, officials said.
Teams searched a broad swath of rugged terrain in western Nevada near the ranch where he took off, but searchers had little to go on because he apparently didn't file a flight plan, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
"They are working on some leads, but they don't know where he is right now," FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
Fossett, the first person to circle the world solo in a balloon, was seeking ...