Five Days And Counting
Things aren’t looking good in the search for Steve Fossett, but the fact that his emergency beacon has not been activated is a good sign.
The search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett entered a fifth day on Friday with a squadron of aircraft scouring a vast expanse of rugged Nevada wilderness for clues to the aviator’s fate.
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The 63-year-old veteran of several world record-breaking solo plane and balloon flights has not been heard from since taking off from a private airstrip 80 miles (130 km) southeast of Reno, Nevada, early Monday.
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Fossett’s single-engine Bellanca aircraft was equipped with an electronic tracking device designed to be triggered in the event of a rough landing, but it had not been activated.
They’ll probably find him sitting there wondering what took them so long to find him.
[...] Steve Fossett is still missing. [...]