SAN FRANCISCO (AP) one of the largest search operations in one of the most inhospitable regions of North America - without success. From the flight-adventurer Steve Fossett (63), on 3 started September on a reconnaissance flight into the Nevada desert, was now no trace. The mysterious disappearance of the famous pilot and his single-engine plane is not unique.
Fossett was in a strip of land on the road, the search team to compare with the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle", that sea area in the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes were lost in unexplained ways.
Instead of Fossett as the rescue aircraft are already pushed to eight old plane wrecks. Those intended for decades in the desert sun . Braise In the seventh largest in area but sparsely populated U.S. state in just the last ten years, 340 small planes have crashed. Since the 50's were a further 150 machines reported missing, the figures of the civil aviation authority. Bill Schroeder of the Aviation authorities said on Thursday the San Francico Chronicle "If somewhere in Nevada a plane goes down, the chances that someone sees or hears, are very bad."
Fossett did in his short flight a suitable runway for subsequent tests exploring race car from the air. He could have flown over the sparsely populated Great Basin in the middle of Nevada, the vast steppes of the arid sagebrush shrubs and salt lakes, pine forests at the edge of the Sierra Nevada. Perhaps he drew a round of the 4000 meter high mountain passes and deep gorges of the mountain range, or got lost in the secret "Area 51", a weapons testing ground of the military.
climbed up to 30 degrees Celsius, the thermometer on the day Fossett disappeared as. The desert heat with their thermal updrafts is feared by pilots. "Who caught the thermals wrong can drop like a stone from the air," described the search team members John "Bumper" Morgan of the newspaper. Dangerous are the strong wind gusts that through the canyons of the Sierra Nevada in the desert . Draw
William Ogle was four years old when his father Charles in 1964 in his single-engine plane on the way to Reno disappeared somewhere in the desert of Nevada. "They (the search team) have seen the wreck, which could come from the 60's. We hope that it is his," said the now 47-year-old son of missing pilot the CNN. The family wanted to finally know for sure. But this could take weeks. Only when the search is terminated after Fossett, the helper will inspect the already sighted, old wrecks in more detail.
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