Steve Fosset was declared leglly dead today. I find it hard to believe that he could vanish without a trace in Nevada, not like he was over the ocean. Is anyone else suspious anout this?

who???

Philistine!

Steve Fosset set numerous flying records including solo flight around the world. His private plane was presumed to have crashed not long after takeoff in Nevada 2 months ago. They never found any wreckage........

Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett is an aviator best known for his solo circumnavigations. On March 3, 2005 he completed the First Solo Nonstop Round the World Airplane Flight in a time of 67 hours 1 minute 10 seconds in the single engine jet airplane the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer. Mr. Fossett continued in 2006 to break 2 more of the Absolute Records of Airplanes. In February he set the Distance without Landing record at 25,766 miles by flying from Kennedy Space Center, around the world, then landing at Bournemouth England. The final record flight of the Global Flyer was the Closed Circuit Distance record of 25,293 miles in March, 2006.

In 2002, Mr. Fossett completed the First Solo Balloon Flight Round the World on his sixth attempt. During his 7 year campaign for the First Solo, he made the first balloon crossing of the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and South America and the first ocean crossings of the South Atlantic, South Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

In gliders, he has set (with co-pilot Terry Delore) 10 of the 21 Open Class records. As a team they have made the longest Straight Distance flight (2,192.9 km), the longest Triangle (1,509.7 km) and the longest Out and Return (2,002.4 km).

In 2004 he set the Absolute Airship Speed record for airships in the Zeppelin with a speed of 115.0 km/h. In his Citation X he has set numerous airplane records including U.S. Transcontinental for non-supersonic airplanes in 2 hours 56 minutes at 726.83 mph and the Australia Transcontinental Record at 705 mph.

He was awarded the Gold Air Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale for 2002 for his accomplishments in aviation.

Outside of aviation he has set 23 official world sailing records including the Round the World in 58 days 9 hours and the Transatlantic at 4 days 17 hours.

In total Fossett has set a total of 115 official world records in 5 sports.



He dissapeared in Nevadain September. No trace of his plane was found.

never heard of him

yeah---she asked---

I was following that story on the news, so I know a little about him. There was one thing emphasized and that was that Fosset knew how to survive and that it would be unlikely that he would disappear and die. So, yes, I found it suspicious that he never turned up.

Hummmm maybe he flew over Area 51.

or the bermuda triangle?

weird but maybe he got eaten by a giant gila monster.

Probably buried in the desert;^]

Especially in this day and age with GPS and satellite and all the tecno crap out there. He should have had on-star instaled

He didn't have anywhere near enough fuel to make it over the ocean, much less to the carribean;^]

he faked his death

Yes he had the money for the best technology, & for a massive extended search.

That's what I am thinking

Bush did it.

No no, Cheney was out hunting and thought the plane was a game bird...lol.

LOL Cheny that was funny

I don't know the answer to this, so can anybody tell me how deep the nevada desert goes?;^]

The Great Basin: More than 200,000 square miles to search, in desert and mountain ranges. Yeah, good luck.