Steve Fossett personal articles found

[tinatark]

Wow - over a year later, a hiker has found Steve Fossett's pilot license, cash, a pullover fleece. I hope they find the rest of the crash field and his remains.


http://news.aol.com/article/hiker-discovers-possible-fossett-items/154661

 

[java]

Isn't that strange? I wonder if those items were in a bag though? At first I thought how the heck is his fleece there but then again he might not have been wearing it. I hope they get some answers. The not knowing for sure has to be brutal.

 

[Mermaid02]

And $1000 in 100 bills. I still wonder if Fossett didn't want to disappear....

 

[tinatark]

The story says the the cards and cash were tangled in a bush - not in a bag or anything, and the shirt was not where the other stuff was, but in the vicinity. On the news earlier today, they (investigators/sheriff, etc.) said that this discovery would be in line with a crash site spread out over a large area.

I don't think he wanted to disappear - no signs pointed to anything like that.

It's hard to believe that even with access to every technology he could possibly need, he ended up dying like this.

I sincerely hope he didn't survive the initial crash, only to die as he hiked in the desert, looking for assistance. That does seem like a possibility with these items found apparently without a crashed plane nearby.

 

[olena]

If they don't find a crash site, then this will definitely feed the theory/rumor mill.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Items near trail? And all together? Could he have survived a crash, uninjured, started walking, found a trail, dropped items along the way & died elsewhere? Sounds odd.

We were just out in that part of CA earlier this year too. Nice country!

EDITED: I hadn't read the thread. Seems tinatark & I were thinking along the same lines.

 

[java]

I heard a blurb on the news this Am that they were searching what they think might be a crash site? I have no idea what they found. But seems like more info is coming out.

 

[agnes!]

While it would almost be impossible to *not* disturb the evidence, I hope the hiker resisted the urge or perhaps took some digital pictures and didn't hike out with everything...

Very very sad. I always liked Steve Fossett - he seemed like a nice guy who just loved life.

agnes!

 

[DawnCt1]

And $1000 in 100 bills. I still wonder if Fossett didn't want to disappear....

For someone with his kind of money, that's pocket change.

 

[tink2dw]

True D. B. Copper jumped with alot more money. Just hadn't thought his excape very well.

 

[SplshMtn99]

http://news.aol.com/article/crews-f...e/154661?icid=200100397x1210495278x1200615950

Wreckage found & identified. Just 1/4 mile from where hiker found ID. No body found yet.

I was hoping maybe he jumped, but since wreckage found so near ID, I'm guessing he didn't. Animals probably spread remains, ID, cash....