Steve Fossett’s plane discovered: Police

Friday, October 3, 2008 at 10:10 am under World News

The mangled wreckage of the plane being flown by adventurer Steve Fossett when he disappeared has been found, police said, but there was no sign of the millionaire’s body.

Madera County Sheriff John Anderson yesterday (October 2) said the shattered remains of Fossett’s single-engine Bellanca had been spotted during an aerial search of the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains in California late Wednesday.

Rescuers later reached the plane on foot and confirmed it was Fossett’s aircraft, but found no human remains at the crash site.

Anderson said photos of the site appeared to indicate that the plane had smashed head-on into a mountainside at high speed.

“The crash looked so severe I doubt if someone would have walked away from it,” Anderson said. “There was no body in the plane. We have not found any human remains at the crash site.”

National Transportation and Safety Board official Mark Rosenker said preliminary analysis of the site indicated Fossett had died in the crash.

“That information is indicative of a high-impact crash, which appears to be consistent with a on-survivable accident,” he said, adding it would likely take “weeks, perhaps months” before the cause of the accident was determined.

Fossett’s widow, Peggy, meanwhile welcomed the discovery of her husband’s plane.

“The uncertainty surrounding my husband’s death over this past year has created a very difficult situation for me,” she said. “I hope now to be able to bring to closure a very painful chapter in my life.”

(Agencies)

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