BREAKING: Hiker Discovers Stephen Fossett Items In California Mountains

A local hiker has discovered what appears to be two FAA licenses and some cash that belonged to the late (still missing) adventurer Stephen Fossett.  The items were found on a trail above Mammoth Lakes, California in an area near Minaret Lake and Minaret Mine.

Stephen Fossett has been missing since September 1st of 2007.  Many people believe that his plane went down, but up till now, no clues have ever been found.  This could be a very big break in this ongoing saga.  Search teams are heading in to the area in hopes that the paper trail will lead them to the plane, and to Stephen Fossett.  After a few months of searching, Stephen Fossett was declared deceased by his wife and the U.S. government.

Since this is a breaking news item, I will continue to run with this post and update it with any new or breaking information as I get it.  Check back for the latest updates.

Legendary Adventurer Stephen Fossett Interviewed AFTER Dissappearance…An Adventurist Exclusive (With The Interview)

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Legendary adventurer and aviator Stephen Fossett disappeared over Labor Day weekend in 2007.  His disappearance would spark the nation’s largest search and rescue effort in history and pave the way for many theories and speculations on what exactly took place. To this day, he has never been heard from, nor found.  That is, until now.

The Adventurist received an interesting comment today from someone claiming to be speaking with the legendary adventurer.  This person has released an interview to The Adventurist, from the famed aviator, supposedly taking place on March 25, 2008–six months after Mr. Fossett’s disappearance.  The interview will be featured momentarily.

First, I must add that I am not here to say this is real or imagined.  I take no responsibility for any claims or retribution associated with this Interview and am only presenting it as it has been presented to myself.  The commenter on my site shared the information, of which I am now sharing with you.  I will let all of you be the judge to the merits of this and of what is actually taking place, while holding no responsibility in regards to this being true or the actual facts presented.

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Week Long Search For Steve Fossett Still Offers Little Clue

The search for legendary adventurer Steve Fossett has hit the crucial first week stage.  After a week of searching through the rugged Nevada and California terrain, searchers are no closer to finding Steve Fossett than they were last Monday when the efforts began.

Few leads and even fewer clues have all been accounted for during the ongoing massive search.  Search crews have now discovered no fewer than eight seperate crash sites, each of them igniting a flurry of activity in the hopes that they would somehow lead to clues in the search for Steve Fossett, but all of them have been fruitless. 

The huge mission being set out to finding the where-abouts of Steve Fossett have included anywhere between 26 and 46 aircraft and countless hundreds of other investigators and searchers in the last week.  Hope still lingers, but crews are getting weary and starting to question if Steve will ever be found–and if he is, will he still be alive?

Earlier this week it was learned that Steve Fossett might not have been carrying the amount of water that was originally thought-

Steve Fossett, one of the world’s leading adventurers and a record holder in a number of different disciplines hasn’t been heard from since last Monday when he took off from the Flying M Ranch in Nevada for what was to be a routine mission to scope out dry lake beds for an upcoming assault on the World Land Speed Record. 

Steve Fossett was suppose to return back to the ranch in 3-4 hours but never made it.  He had enough fuel for a 5-6 hour flight, emergency locator beacons in the tail of the plane plus in a specially designed watch that Steve always had on, and no parachute.  No signal has been recieved from the locator beacons, even a week after the dissappearance.

It is being mentioned today that just about 100% of the rugged terrain within the massive search area has been covered.  Searchers are combing an environment, littered with massive valleys, that is roughly twice the size of New Jersey.  Some have said it is like finding a needle in a haystack.  A very large haystack.  With a plane.

 Source:  CNN

Using The New Adventurist Forums

You have probably already noticed the two banners found at the top of this page.  Should be one directly to your right, and one to your left.  The first button is for the newest addition here to The Adventurist-The Adventurist Forums.  Upon clicking this box, you will be taken to a page featuring all of the topics being discussed by readers of this site, such as yourself.  In order to make full use of the forums you will need to register.  The “Register” button is found at the top of the Forums screen.

This is actually a pretty simple process.  Name, Email, and then your password of choice will unlock the benefits of what this forum is all about.  This is a new forum, and at this time there are only a couple of registered users.  There are quite a few people visiting and checking it out, but perhaps they didn’t know where the “Register” button was.  That is the reasoning for this post.

On your left hand side you will notice a banner that says “The Adventurist Polls”.  This will take you to an area on The Adventurist Forum and ask you a simple question.  In order to take part in the polls, you will have to ”Register” as well.

We all know that Adventure seekers aren’t one-sided thinkers.  Once you Sign Up for the Forums, you will be able to express all of your thoughts from climbing and mountain biking to Sports and Headlines of the day.

A couple of good discussions have already been started, including one on the current search for Steven Fossett.   Just to show you how general this all is, we also have a nice discussion going on about the NFL as well.

I am hoping that this will become another part of the much used “Adventurist” Community and am excited to be able to offer this to all of my faithful readers.

I will be using this forum, myself, on a regular basis.  I will be bouncing ideas and discussing topics of the day, as well as generally just getting to know my readers on a more personal level.  I will also be using some of the discussions and comments placed on the Adventurist Forum in future articles on The Adventurist.  Pour that coffee, grab that cup of tea, and let’s discuss what’s on your mind.

Cheers-

Jason A. Hendricks, Editor

An Adventurist Editorial: The Stephen Fossett Debates

We should have all seen this one coming from a mile away–

Going into days 5 and 6 for the ongoing search of legendary adventurer Steven Fossett, people are starting to take their focus off of the search and more onto the debates surrounding these types of events when they occur–

First it began with how great of an adventurer Steven Fossett is.  Over the past few days this focus has slowly moved to the motives of a “Risk-Taker” and if Stephen Fossett’s family should be charged for the search currently taking place.

Both of these items are highly debatable and both of them generally always surround a high profile search, especially if the person involved was also a part of anything that has a certain risk-factor to it or has been the focus of media attention in the past.

Personally, I began taking notice of these debates around December of last year when three climbers became lost on Mt. Hood.  The ensuing search, that garnered massive media coverage, soon became a debate for a cause. 

It may be the cause of the general media’s focus to always provide something new to a highly viewed (and rated) story.  Running out of new leads, they hop back on the bus and get everyone involved in raging debates that once again spark interest to previous stories of the same general nature.

Two questions always emerge:  Should the families of the person being searched for have to pay for this service?  And secondly–the risk involved.  How could they do this to their families and loved ones?  What is it about risk that triggers these people to always endanger their lives? Read more

Steve Fossett: Your Thoughts, Your Views, Your Prayers

 Join the Stephen Fossett Discussion in the Adventurist Forums 

In December of 2006, tragedy struck on Mt. Hood.  During the ensuing coverage that myself, as well as many others provided, I opened up a forum for you, the viewers, to post your thoughts, views, and prayers.   This became such a popular area that family and friends of the stranded climbers came here for support and encouragement.

At this time, as the search for world class adventurer Steven Fossett goes into Day 5, I am once again opening up a post for you, the readers. Read more

More News on the Search for Stephen Fossett

As is the case with most Breaking News stories, information will be coming out fast and furious.

The first update of note involves Stephen Fossett’s flight plan.  It is being widely reported that Mr. Fossett failed to file a flight plan, and this has hampered the search for his missing plane. 

It is now being noted that it is perfectly customary for planes using visual navigation to not file such flight plans and is the current practice with many pilots.

The search for Stephen Fossett and his plane is currently being conducted over harsh land in western Nevada.  The search includes six aircraft with three man crews, who are currently battling high winds in the search effort.

The blackbox associated with Mr. Fossett’s plane has not been activated, leading many to believe that this shows a possible sign that there was not a hard impact of the aircraft.  The tracking devices are set to activate if a hard impact is involved. 

Mr. Fossett’s flight took off from the Flying M Ranch, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, and seems to be where the search is partially conducting efforts.

Let’s all hope that this turns out well for Mr. Fossett.  He is an incredible individual and we will keep him in our thoughts as the search for Stephen Fossett continues..

BREAKING NEWS: ADVENTURIST STEPHEN FOSSETT’S PLANE MISSING

BREAKING NEWS–BREAKING NEWS–BREAKING NEWS–BREAKING NEWS

Stephen Fossett Missing!  September 4, 2007

 

Stephen Fossett, the man who single-handedly flew a hot air balloon around the world in 2002 to set a world record, is missing.  The FAA has announced that Mr. Fossett took off in his single-engine Balanca yesterday morning at 8:45 am but failed to make it to his destination.  Search efforts for the missing plane are currently being undertaken.

Stephen Fossett, 63, from Beaver Creek, Colorado is a world famous aviation adventurer.  After his successful 2002 flight around the world in a hot air balloon Stephen would undertake a few more high-risk challenges in the efforts of pushing the boundaries of aviation.  In 2005, Fossett became the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and is also credited, along with his co-pilot of setting the mark for the world’s highest altitude reached in a paraglider–50, 671 ft. in August of this year.

Stephen’s big noteriety in the aviation field though still remains his 2002 Hot Air Balloon flight that took him 19, 428.6 miles around the world.  Fossett had tried the feat previously 5 times, with more press building for each successive attempt.  Two of the failed attempts resulted in Mr. Fossett having to be rescued after the Balloon went down in treacherous waters of the Ocean.

According to FAA personnel, Fossett had failed to file a flight plan.  This has hampered the Civil Air Patrol, who is in charge of the search and rescue, from being able to find Mr. Fossett’s plane.  It is known that Stephen Fossett was planning on flying from a private airstrip south of Smith Valley in western Nevada, but didn’t return as he had planned.

A friend of Mr. Fossett’s tipped the authorities off to the missing plane and a search is ongoing.  The search is being coordinated by the United States Air Force’s Rescue Coordination Center in Langley, VA with help of the United States Civil Air Patrol.

According to the online Encyclopedia site Wikipedia, Stephen Fossett holds or has held 116 different world records in five different sports, of which 80 are still standing.  Mr. Fossett was also the founder of his own Securities company based out of Chicago, IL–Marathon Securities. 

More from Wikipedia regarding todays news:

According to CNN News, the search for Fossett began about six hours later (from time of take-off). He was flying in a single-engine, Citabria Super Decathlon — a plane capable of aerobatics — with tail number N240R, according to CAP. Fossett, though, had no parachute, which is required for aerobatics. There has been no sound from the plane’s emergency locator radio beacon, which goes off if there is a hard impact.

Fossett took off on Monday with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to Civil Air Patrol Maj. Cynthia S. Ryan. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border.

^[7] There is speculation that Fossett made an unplanned landing, possibly crashing, in western Nevada.^[8] A Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson noted that Fossett apparently did not file a flight plan.^[9][10]

^{Please note that this information is from Wikipedia and cannot be confirmed as altogether factual at this time.}