Jaunted

There are several errors in this story:

1. I don't know who started the RUMOR, but Mr. Fossett's wife has confirmed that he wasn't wearing his Breitling Emergency watch on his final flight. In fact, he never used it. It was originally owned by Sir RIchard Branson, who thought Fossett could make better use of it, so he literally took it off his wrist and gave it to Fossett. Fossett, and rightly so, had no use for it. The reality is that the emergency signal transmitted from the watch is so weak, a resucer would have to be in an aircraft practically on top of someone for the signal to be received.

2. There is no such device as an emergency locator TRANSPONDER. It is an emergency locator TRANSMITTER. There is a BIG difference between a transponder and a transmitter, and if you don't know what that is, then you should look it up.

3. You state that Civil Air Patrol is using FLIR. Do you even know what FLIR is? I doubt it. The fact is that Civil Air Patrol does not and never has used FLIR. If, in fact, an aircraft with FLIR capability is still in the search, then it most likely is being provided by the State Police.

Well, at least you didn't write something misleading about Fossett not filing a flight plan. I'll give you that...

Thank you.