Sounds like it - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081001/peo ... _fossett_1

So far no airplane, just clothing and ID.

Maybe it is a case of identity theft?

Should find Hilton's plane fairly close by you'd think...

I'm having trouble seeing how a wallet could move from an airplane wreck if he died in the airplane. Either he must have survived the crash or some of the contents of the cabin must have departed the airplane in flight. I guess its possible that an animal might have moved some stuff, but is that likely?

I was flying down the west side of the Sierra's on the same morning he disappeared and it was one of the best flying days I've ever seen - light & variable to 20,000, 100 mile visability and nice fall temperatures.

We were flying from Yuba City via Quincy, over Pyramid Lake, Lovelock to Battle Mountain the same day...weather was great..no clouds, no turbulence etc.
HC

N131CP wrote:I guess its possible that an animal might have moved some stuff, but is that likely?

It's almost certain. Coyotes and other scavengers will scatter remains all over the place. Dogs will drag parts up to a 1/4 mile. A body can be completely disarticulated within five months of death. So it's likely that a coyote dragged off a bit with clothing or something still attached. Combine that with wind and water it's almost inevitable that you'd find items dispersed.

10 O'Clock news is saying that wreckage, that looks like a small aircraft, has been found in the area near where the ID and money was located.

bumper

N131CP wrote:I was flying down the west side of the Sierra's on the same morning he disappeared and it was one of the best flying days I've ever seen - light & variable to 20,000, 100 mile visability and nice fall temperatures.

I think your full of shit I was out that day getting the crap knocked out of us coming home from McDermit.

Ok well you did say west side, it sure wasn't nice over here. Gump was on one of the peaks he said he could hardly stand up.

I concur with Mr Scout.

I too was flying near that area September 3rd. From Winnemucca south to past Reno to avoid the gliders around Truckee, then west just south of Lake Tahoe to San Jose. It was a very bumpy ride to say the least.

N131CP wrote:Sounds like it - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081001/peo ... _fossett_1

So far no airplane, just clothing and ID.

Just got this
Fossett wreckage has been located 37deg 40.061N x 119deg 07.997 W, about

1/2 mile west of the personal effects, just S. of Lois Lake west of Mammoth Ski area. A data plate

was recovered with N240R on it. Wreckage is burned.

On labor day monday of 2007 I flew from Klamath Falls OR to Fresno, CA and then on into Whiteman in LA - over the west slopes of the Sierras all the way. The conditions were absolutely perfect. It sounds like 'hicountry' was flying west to east just north of where Fossett was flying, again in excellent conditions.

If 'mrscout' and 'quail' were flying south from McDermitt and west from Winnemucca on the same morning and got bad turbulence they must have been in those famous NV thermals.

I don't think weather/turbulence could have been a factor in this crash.

Most of the plane's fuselage disintegrated on impact, and the engine was found several hundred feet away at an elevation of 9,700 feet, authorities said.

"It was a hard-impact crash, and he would've died instantly," said Jeff Page, emergency management coordinator for Lyon County, Nev., who assisted the search.

After a hiker found identification belonging to Fossett earlier in the week, searchers began combing the rugged terrain on Wednesday. The wreckage was found about a quarter-mile from where hiker Preston Morrow made his discovery Monday.


"I remember the day he crashed, there were large thunderheads over the peaks around us," Mono County Undersheriff Ralph Obenberger said, gesturing to the mountains flanking Mammoth Lakes.

N131CP wrote:On labor day monday of 2007 I flew from Klamath Falls OR to Fresno, CA and then on into Whiteman in LA - over the west slopes of the Sierras all the way. The conditions were absolutely perfect. It sounds like 'hicountry' was flying west to east just north of where Fossett was flying, again in excellent conditions.

If 'mrscout' and 'quail' were flying south from McDermitt and west from Winnemucca on the same morning and got bad turbulence they must have been in those famous NV thermals.

I don't think weather/turbulence could have been a factor in this crash.

Sorry to burst your bubble but since I live just north of Yerrington, and we were going to stop at Bridgeport for breakfast that day but it was way to rough through the pass we just landed here at home.

The wind at Bridgeport at was 29 Knots Mono was 25 when that happens it can easily approach 100 over the peaks.

Quite a bit different weather than you had on the west side, as always

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For what it's worth, I too was flying my Husky in the early afternoon (12:30) on the day Steve went missing. We flew from Minden, about 102 miles north of the crash site, east to Sunrise Pass. An observer saw my plane descend into a canyon and, "not come out". This prompted both an air and ground search of Sunrise Pass! - - Even though I called CAP and told 'em it was me (go figure).

Anyway, at 12:30 conditions over the Pinenut mountains were not too bad, only light turbulance with winds about 15 knots or so and getting worse as the day wore on. In the lee of the Sierra, where the crash occurred, it could and probably was much more severe.

bumper

So they found his wallet and the plane,Did they find any of him?

I find it suspicious that half the site was out flying in the area on that day.

very suspect indeed

This can only be solved one way...

Call in the Spanish Inquisition!

Tadpole wrote:This can only be solved one way...

Call in the Spanish Inquisition!

Where is Gump he was on the mountain that day