# Steve Fossett missing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024 "2007-09-04T18:09:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/41 "2007-09-07T04:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Xema] And a pilot faced with the need to make a forced landing may well have better things to do than try to talk on the radio. [/QUOTE] Which is why I believe that whatever happened must have been catastrophic. Something like a serious fire on board, part of the airplane falling off, or flying into a mountain while your head is in the cockpit siddling with something or reading a map. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/42 "2007-09-07T16:06:04Z")
[CNN video](http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/07/mo.miles.fossett.search.cnn). ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/43 "2007-09-08T11:29:06Z")
Searchers find 6 other crash sites: > **[Fossett Searchers Stumble Upon Other Accident Sites | Aero-News Network](http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=9f77adf3-fae8-422d-a684-e57890e4cd31)** > > But Still No Sign Of Missing Aviator Crews searching for famed aviator Steve Fossett, who went missing over the Nevada desert Monday, have turned up | Published: Sat, Sep 08, 2007 | Aero-News Network Brian ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/44 "2007-09-09T03:04:19Z")
Another example of why it makes sense to keep on searching: [Student climbs out of ravine a week after crash](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20664520/). ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/45 "2007-09-09T03:13:05Z")
Saw an article on Slashdot that they’ve got fresh hi-res satellite imagery that’s been released for a sort of distributed online search for possible crash sites, where anyone can download the footage and then send in possible hits to a team that will review them and direct the good ones to the attention of searchers. I’d link it but I’m lazy. Seems like a neat idea, though. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/46 "2007-09-09T12:47:45Z")
[http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash](http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash) Do what you can. Try to save a life. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/47 "2007-09-09T15:22:51Z")
One. Missing Person’s Investigation! Every little trip he takes… Oh wait…that was [Fosse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fosse) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/48 "2007-09-10T01:22:21Z")
Incidentally: When I was in CAP an aircrew went down in the San Bernardino mountains while searching for downed aircraft. All aboard were killed. The searchers in Nevada are flying aircraft ‘similar’ to Fossett’s. (Fossett’s borrowed Decathlon is tube-and-fabric and the search aircraft are all aluminum, but you know what I mean.) And they’re flying over the same terrain (obviously) and probably in the same weather. Let’s hope everyone remains safe. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/49 "2007-10-03T23:07:40Z")
CAP gives up search: > **[CAP Suspends Its Search For Steve Fossett | Aero-News Network](http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e33820b9-acb9-45e2-8b74-ecbd5061201f)** > > Month-Long Efforts Revealed No Signs Of Missing Aviator The trail has gone cold. Tuesday night, the US Air Force officially ended search efforts by t| Published: Wed, Oct 03, 2007 | Aero-News Network Brian ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-fossett-missing/418024/50 "2007-10-03T23:16:55Z")
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