Adventurer Steve Fossett's ill-fated flight was simply going to be a "Sunday drive," but one camper who thinks he saw the plane said the craft was fighting headwinds.
Bones found last week near where Steve Fossett's plane crashed in eastern California's Sierra Nevadas are those of the adventurer, authorities said Monday.
A bone fragment found in the area where Steve Fossett's plane crashed will be tested to determine whether it came from an animal or a human, a Madera County, California, sheriff's spokeswoman said Friday.
A small amount of human remains has been found in the wreckage of the plane that adventurer Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday.
Searchers found the wreckage of Steve Fossett's airplane in
California's rugged Sierra Nevada just over a year after the
millionaire adventurer vanished on a solo flight, and the craft appears
to have hit the mountainside head-on
Adventurer Steve Fossett's ill-fated flight was simply going to be a "Sunday drive," but one camper who thinks he saw the plane said the craft was fighting headwinds.
Bones found last week near where Steve Fossett's plane crashed in eastern California's Sierra Nevadas are those of the adventurer, authorities said Monday.
A bone fragment found in the area where Steve Fossett's plane crashed will be tested to determine whether it came from an animal or a human, a Madera County, California, sheriff's spokeswoman said Friday.
A small amount of human remains has been found in the wreckage of the plane that adventurer Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday.
Searchers found the wreckage of Steve Fossett's airplane in
California's rugged Sierra Nevada just over a year after the
millionaire adventurer vanished on a solo flight, and the craft appears
to have hit the mountainside head-on
The Civil Air Patrol has called off the search for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, nearly a month after he took off from a Nevada ranch, the agency announced Tuesday.
Flight teams are following up on leads but have found "nothing promising" in their fourth full day of hunting for billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, a sheriff's official said Friday.
A squadron of 10 airplanes and helicopters began a fourth day Thursday of a frustrating search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, whose small plane disappeared over Nevada's rugged high desert.
Fellow aviation enthusiast Sir Richard Branson said Wednesday he was worried that rescuers had found no sign of his friend, adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared two days ago after taking off from another friend's desert ranch.
Adventure might as well be Steve Fossett's middle name. The man has spent most of his life breaking and setting records in sailing, aviation and ballooning.
After surviving a major fuel loss, some turbulence that nearly ripped his plane apart, and blowing out two tires on the landing, American adventurer Steve Fossett Saturday broke the world's flight distance record after traveling more than 26,000 miles (about 42,000 km) in 76 hours.
Flying from horizon to horizon, Steve Fossett completed the first solo, nonstop flight around-the-world without refueling on Thursday, landing gracefully in Kansas at 2:49 pm ET.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett will attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach Hawaii despite a fuel shortage detected by mission control early Wednesday.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett began his attempt to complete the first solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe by powered aircraft on Monday evening. Fossett took off from Salina, Kansas, aboard the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer and he does not plan to stop until he gets back there.
U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett says he has last-minute nerves as he prepares an attempt on the "last great aviation record" by piloting an airplane alone around the world without refueling or stopping.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett hopes to set the "last great aviation record" by piloting an airplane alone around the world without refueling or stopping.
Floating pierside on the Hudson River, PlayStation shimmers on the edge of plausibility. A $5 million, 105-foot-long, dual-hulled vision of gleaming yellow carbon fiber and Kevlar, the boat embodie...
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