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New Leads in Fossett Search

September 26, 2007 at 9:35 AM | by pbb | 1 Comment

US Air Force imaging experts have a new lead in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. After scanning radar and satellite images, an official working on the search says his people have picked up new clues to Fossett's location. Ground crews as well as search aircraft will be checking an area stretching 100 miles southeast of the Flying M Ranch.

Very close to the ranch is Walker Lake and the adjacent Hawthore Army Depot. Also to the southeast of the Flying M Ranch--at about the far end of this 100 mile tract--is the Nevada Test and Training Range, home to Area 51 and other military installations.

Meanwhile, hopes for finding Fossett hang on some new technology. The Civil Air Patrol--which now only has two planes involved in the search--is using a special cameras called ARCHER and FLIR that can detect subtleties the human eye can't. But no signal has come from Fossett's on-board safeguards, a emergency locator transponders on his plane and in the Breitling watch he's probably wearing.

Related Stories:
· New Leads in Search for Fossett [AP]
· Technology May Have Abandoned Fossett [Union-Tribune]
· Search for Steve Fossett coverage [Jaunted]

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  1. anonymous

    Jaunted Member

    Getting it right

    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.    

    September 27, 2007 at 6:58 AM
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