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Non-stop flight
America has lost a famous adventurer
For the second week, America is looking for its missing millionaire, adventurer and adventurer Steve Fossett. His plane took off in the early morning hours of September 4 and never returned. There was enough fuel for five to six hours; Fossett was supposed to be at the airfield by noon. It never occurred to anyone that it would all end like this. A man who handled an airplane more confidently than with a knife and fork, a pilot who got out of the most difficult scrapes, was caught like a boy on a boring, ordinary flight, about which there is not even a note in the logbook.Steve Fossett, in addition to his strong fortune, is known as the man who has achieved 116 records in the air and on the water, most of which have never been broken. He swam across the English Channel, participated in dog sled races, made the first non-stop flight around the Earth on a Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer and on the same plane, but a year later, he broke all records for flight range, covering more than 41 thousand kilometers in 76 hours. Not to mention the fact that in 2002, the same Fossett was the first and only one in the world to travel around the world in a hot air balloon. In July 2007, for his various services and achievements in the field of flight, he was honored in the National American Aviation Hall of Fame. Then, at the solemn ceremony, the touched millionaire pilot promised his fellow citizens that in November he would go to Argentina to make another record for glider flight range. But now it is obvious that Steve Fossett has already set off on his longest flight on September 4th.
Nevertheless, his search will continue until the bitter end, despite the fact that no one hopes to find the pilot alive. “It cannot be ruled out that he will never be found. But I would like to believe that with our modern technology the chances of detecting it are much greater. And whether it’s us, or some hunter, or skier, we will still find him. I'd like to believe the glass is half full,” Nevada police spokesman Joe Sanford told The Associated Press.
Every day, 45 planes and helicopters take to the skies in search of Steve to re-search 25.9 thousand square kilometers where the millionaire’s little Super Decathlon could have been lost. Sentimental Americans cannot just lose such a significant figure. They say that search work of this scale has never been carried out here. In addition to the army, police and rescuers, local residents and even Internet users are looking for the plane. Anyone can go to the website <http://www.avweb.com> and carefully review satellite photographs of the search area. Instructions for identifying aircraft wreckage are attached.
In the meantime, such commendable perseverance has led to the fact that search engines have discovered the wreckage of as many as six aircraft, although none of them belong to Fossett. Crashed many years ago, they are piles of metal, overgrown with local lush vegetation. The remains of their long-lost pilots are out of the question - the area is infested with coyotes, jackals and mountain lions. All this is very sad, but now no one will study the history of these victims. Only after the search for Steve Fossett is officially completed will Federal Aviation Administration inspectors examine the crash sites of six as yet unidentified aircraft, correct the list of missing persons, notify relatives and finally provide the unfortunate with long-awaited honors.