Searchers are continuing the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. Fossett went missing in September of last year, searchers were called from every direction to find the missing adventurer. Last year’s search covered 20,000 square miles surrounding Barron Hilton’s Flying M Ranch, with searchers on foot, in the air and some using high tech equipment and satellites.
This time, two teams of volunteers will hike through a smaller area where the 63-year-old Fossett was last seen.
Previous searchers are providing maps and other detailed information on the harsh landscape the new teams plan to cover.
“The more people we have, the more eyes and boots on the ground we have, the better our chances are of locating Mr. Fossett,” said Gary Derks of the Nevada Department of Public Safety, who oversaw the 2007 hunt. “I wish them a lot of luck.”
Fossett was declared dead by an Illinois judge on February 15th, 2008. His widow isn’t helping with this search and does not plan to continue searching for him. That sounds a little weird to me, why doesn’t she want to find his body and carry out his death rights? I mean, they do find missing people, it just can take an extremely long time.
“Don’t give up hope. We waited 60 years or more,” said Jeanne Pyle, who in mid-May was finally able to bury her brother, Ernest Munn, a World War II airman whose trainer plane disappeared in 1942 in the high Sierra about 100 miles from Hilton’s ranch.
Backpackers told rangers last August they found an ice-entombed body on 13,710-foot Mount Mendel. In March, the Defense Department said forensic experts determined it was Munn, the long-missing brother of Pyle and her two sisters. He was the second of four airmen aboard the missing plane to be identified.
“We often wondered if they would ever find him,” said Pyle, 87. “Who would have ever thought about ice preserving him. It’s just been a miracle.”
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