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So Long Steve Fossett

Super-adventurer Steve Fossett was declared dead by a Chicago judge on Friday, more than five months after he vanished into the Nevada wilderness on a daytime flight in a light aircraft.

His widow, Peggy, took the stand during the court proceedings, testifying to Fossett's legendary survival skills:

Everybody thought he'd come walking down the road one day and have another story to tell.

Sadly, that never happened, and there's been no sign of him--or even his plane--despite a massive search operation that went on for weeks. A search-and-rescue expert at the trial testified that Fossett could've crashed in a crevice near Mt. Grant in Nevada. It's also possible, he said, that pine trees were obscuring the wreckage of his plane.

This ruling not withstanding, we're betting people will be pondering the mystery of Fossett's disappearance for decades to come.

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