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Steve Fossett missing, presumed to have crashed plane

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Sep 4, 2007.

  1. There would still be bones, presumably.
     
  2. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You know that... I know that... several others on here know that... others? not so much
     
  3. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Plus the stories I've read say his stuff (IDs, cash) was found by a hiker a ways away from the crash site. So maybe he parachuted out and wandered in the mountains a bit before succumbing to the conditions.
     
  4. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    Or he died in the crash and animals scattered his remains and belongings. Strange things happen up in the mountains.
     
  5. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    The bears tossed the ID and wallet after they maxed out his credit cards.

    Honey ain't cheap you know.
     
  6. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I think this is a well-conceived and executed idea. He's fine. He'll emerge in a year and living like a wildebeast, and we'll all celebrate.
     
  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Once he completed the round the world plane trip and said he was going to keep going and doing stuff I figured there was no way he'd die at home in a bed. I was impressed he had over a few thousand dollars in cash with him when he went up. That is some rough country there in the East Sierras, no wonder they didn't find him looking in Nevada.
     
  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Human remains found at the site:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fossett_search
     
  9. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    If you see a couple of bears walking into the casino, wanting to know where the hi-limit games are, there you go.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Those flying under the Visual Flight Rules, meaning you have sufficient visibility to see and avoid hazards, don't have to file plans to fly in uncontrolled airspace (and there's a lot of that out west). Those flying under the FAA's Instrument Flight Rules -- in the clouds, bad weather above 18,000 feet -- are required to file flight plans.

    Those plans would list only navigational aids (radio beacons, etc.) and airways that the pilot planned to use. Once you take off on an IFR flight, radar centers (normally called "approach/departure" control) almost always vector you, that is, tell you which heading to fly.

    Armchair, JFK had to file a flight plan because he left form controlled airspace at Essex County. He was familiar with the route, which was over water (obviously), but was not an instrument-rated pilot. He most likely lost visual reference with the horizon and became spatially disoriented, a big-time killer in the desert and over water where a pilot can't determine his or her position in relation to the earth's surface or other significant objects. He went into a graveyard spin which is a long, slow descending turn. Once you're in that turn for so long, the fluid in your ears stabilizes and your vestibular organs tell you you're upright. When you right yourself, that fluid moves back to the normal, level position, it feels like you're turning the other way. So, you go right back into the same turn. Bad ju-ju.
     
  11. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27523123/?gt1=43001

    Some remains confirmed to be Fossett.
     
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