Fossett: an aviator with nine lives. . . .

High-tech plane used in hunt for adventurer Fossett

[AFP - Thursday, September 6 LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - An aircraft with state-of-the-art imaging technology joined the search for aviator Steve Fossett on Wednesday, two days after a plane flown by the adventurer vanished over a rugged region of Nevada.

A squadron of planes and helicopters resumed operations over a 600-square-mile (155,000-hectare) region of mountain terrain after failing to find any trace of Fossett during searches late Monday and Tuesday.
Fossett, who has survived numerous brushes with death during a series of record-breaking solo flights around the world by balloon and airplane, has not been heard from since taking off from a private airstrip early Monday. . . .http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070906/twl-us-aviation-people-7e07afd.html

Hope he's all right.

SC Harrison said:

Me too. Did you see that thing on the news (last week?) where a mother and her daughter burned up in a hot-air balloon? They even had video of it.

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OMG. How horrible.

And they're so beautiful, too.
Used to have them fly over my house when I lived out west. I had one land right outside the yard. What could they do? No wind.

Wish it had been that easy for the lady and her daughter.