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Officials have confirmed that the airplane flown by Steve Fossett, as well as pieces of identifying personal property, have been found by hikers in the Mammoth Lakes area of California.
His body has not been located. (See update 10/2/2008 below.)
Steve Fossett has been missing since September 2007.
The Bellanca 8KCAB (N240R) has been missing since September 3, 2007, when Fossett departed Yerington, Nevada for a local flight, according to the NTSB.
The Safety Board also said that the wreckage was located at about 10,000 feet of elevation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, California.
UPDATE 10/2/2008: Human Remains Found Near Wreckage.
Airline News - Video of the Spanair MD-82 plane crash in Madrid shows the aircraft barely getting off the ground, then skidding and erupting in fire and smoke.
The crash took place just as the aircraft began to lift off and it appears failure to deploy the flaps may be the primary cause, according to published and broadcast accounts.
The plane was operating as Flight JK5022 and bound for the Canary Islands.
Airline News - Authorities are beginning the investigation into the catastrophic plane crash at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. More than 150 deaths are reported.
The crash of the Spanair MD-82 took place just as the aircraft began to lift off, according to published and broadcast accounts.
The plane was operating as Flight JK5022 and bound for the Canary Islands.
Airline News - A Spanair MD-82 has crashed at Madrid's Barajas International Airport with the loss of at least 153 lives. The plane was heading for the Canary Islands and had just departed when the accident occurred.
The plane crash is reported to be the worst in Spain in 25 years. Initial reports indicate some 19 people have survived the crash of Flight JK5022. Spanair is owned entirely by Scandinavian Airlines, though it is based in Spain.
Space News - The carrier aircraft at the center of Virgin Galactic's plans, White KnightTwo, has rolled out Monday, July 28, 2008, from the Scaled Composites' factory in Mojave, California.
White Knight Two is the atmospheric "first stage" that lifts SpaceShipTwo up to 50,000 feet before releasing the smaller sub-orbital spacecraft for its journey into micro gravity at the edge of space.
AeroSpaceNews.com - After years of service, some of it top secret, the United States Air Force is to retire the F-117A Nighthawk, the first so-called Stealth Fighter, in April 2008.
AeroSpaceNews.com - Lawmakers in the US Congress questioned the Air Force on its decision to award a multibillion-dollar KC-45A tanker contract to European-based EADS (Airbus) and U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corporation, instead of the Boeing Company, an US manufacturer offering its own tanker and with decades of experience supplying tankers to the United States Air Force.
