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Millionaire Adventurer Steve Fossett Goes Missing In Nevada Desert

9/05/2007 at 10:25 AM
Tags: Adventure Travel, Light Aircraft, Bellanca Citabria Super Decathalon, Flying-M-Ranch-Map (all tags)

American adventurer Steve Fossett was reported missing on Monday after failing to return to the airstrip he took off from at a southern Nevada ranch while piloting a Bellanca Citabria Super Decathalon light aircraft. He was flying solo. Teams are searching the areas of his likely course as we type, though a flight plan was not submitted prior to take off.

Steve took off from Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, roughly 70 miles southeast of Reno, and the missing millionaire was scheduled to scout possible locations for a planned attempt on the world land-speed record later this month.

Fosset's adventure travel escapades include the world's longest uninterrupted flight, 26,389.3 miles aboard the Virgin GlobalFlyer back in 2006, and the first solo round-the-world in a balloon flight in 2002. He also set a world glider altitude record of 50,671 feet over the Andes in 2006.

Flying M Ranch Map

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