Steve Fossett

jephree · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 05:33 AM

Vanishing of Aviator Puzzles Many

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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 5 — As the search for the wealthy adventurer Steve Fossett entered its third day, rescue crews and aviation experts expressed bafflement Wednesday at his disappearance and the inability to find him.

They pointed out that Mr. Fossett was a highly skilled pilot who was flying on a clear day over familiar terrain when his single-engine aircraft vanished Monday morning in rural western Nevada on what was to have been a brief flight.

More than a dozen aircraft have been used to scour a mountainous area south of Reno since the search began in earnest at 6 p.m. Monday, but so far there has been no sign of Mr. Fossett or the blue and white Citabria Super Decathlon he was flying.

What is more, officials say, they have not detected the emergency locator beacon that should have automatically gone off in the event of a crash, or that could have been enabled by Mr. Fossett himself if he was capable.

“This is kind of strange, because these aircraft have transponders and emergency locators and you can usually readily find them anywhere in the world, including under the sea,” said Ross Aimer, chief executive of Aviation Experts, a consulting firm in San Clemente, Calif., who has flown the region several times. “This guy is totally lost in what I would say is not a no man’s land. So far, nobody’s heard the electronic location beacon. That sounds to me very, very strange.”

paulthomasno6 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 08:34 AM

Just a theory...

jephree · #3 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 11:58 PM

Yeah the thought crossed my mind too. Especially in that area.

They come down and take our best fliers.

Or maybe he was/is one of them and he was just visiting and showing off his skills to us mere mortals and just went back home?

Total disappearance is very weird!

paulthomasno6 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 01:19 AM

Pavarotti has gone to the Opera House in the sky - not a great week for achievers, all in all.

jephree · #5 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 03:31 AM

That's quite a juxtaposition Number 6!

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Google Helps in Search for Aviator

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Google Inc. is best known for finding information online, but sometimes the Internet search leader also works behind the scenes to look for missing people like renowned aviator Steve Fossett.

The Mountain View-based company has emerged as a potentially useful resource for search-and-rescue teams because of its connections to the dozens of contractors that provide satellite imagery for its popular Google Earth software.

While most of the images used in Google Earth's 3-D tours of the world are anywhere from six months to three years old, the company can request more recent pictures taken from space

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...WN50zvmMHVO83Q

paulthomasno6 · #6 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 06:40 AM

It's true, my mind makes the most unlikely connections sometimes

But I was listening to BBC World through News Radio last night and Luciano had just passed away just a few hours earlier. It made a change from hearing about global warming and the Middle East anyhow.

jephree · #7 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 08:21 AM

Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?

Besides that: interesting site here:

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/

paulthomasno6 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 08:32 AM

Sorry, when it comes to German, you get a big Nyet from me!

jephree · #9 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 08:39 AM

Is that a contraction of "Not Yet"?

... anyway that was the original first line of Rilke's First Duino Elegy which seemed fitting to me for both the living and the dead.

In the crude English it is basically translated:

"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?"

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/German/Rilke.htm

paulthomasno6 · #10 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 12:21 PM

That's not so crude. Rather moving in fact, jeph.