Fossett Update: Plane Wreckage Found
by Kara Swisher
Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:33 AM PT
It seems the discovery of IDs and some money and clothing in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains thought to have been related to missing aviator Steve Fossett has led a search crew to a crash site of a small plane belonging to him.
A search for his remains continues at the wreckage, reports say. Fossett’s plane apparently flew into a part of a mountain.
Fossett, a well-known adventurer, disappeared a year ago–after taking off in a Bellanca Super Decathlon aerobatic single-engine plane from a private airstrip in Nevada.
After search efforts proved fruitless, he was declared dead.
The search for Fossett was one of the biggest undertaken, and also included a substantial Internet effort called “crowdsourcing.”
That referred to tens of thousands of people poring over satellite photographs uploaded to the Web by Amazon (AMZN) in an attempt to find a crash site in the images.
