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Wreckage Found Isn't Fossett's Plane

First overnight search completed; aviator has been missing since Monday

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 6, 2007 3:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Wreckage found yesterday has turned out not to be that of missing aviator Steve Fossett's plane, so the search goes on. The Nevada Air Patrol's first overnight search, using a high-tech thermal imaging camera, yielded nothing. Nevertheless, searchers remain hopeful. "If anyone has to be lost out there, this guy has the skills to survive," says one official.

What was briefly thought to be Fossett's plane was actually older debris at an unmapped site. The search area has been expanded from 600 to 10,000 square miles, CNN reports, and searching has been almost entirely aerial because the terrain is so rough. An official says it will take a week under ideal conditions to cover the area.

Crew members of an Army Blackhawk helicopter prepare to take off from the Minden Airport, to join in the search for aviator Steve Fossett, in Minden, Nev. , Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett vanished somewhere across a landscape of soaring peaks and sagebrush desert notorious for winds so...
Crew members of an Army Blackhawk helicopter prepare to take off from the Minden Airport, to join in the search for aviator Steve Fossett, in Minden, Nev. , Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Millionaire adventurer...   (Associated Press)
Civil Air Patrol pilot Col. Ed Lewis scans the area near Yerington, Nev., where millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett took off Monday, while searching for the missing aviator Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007.  As the search for Fossett dragged into a second day Wednesday with some false leads but no sign of...
Civil Air Patrol pilot Col. Ed Lewis scans the area near Yerington, Nev., where millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett took off Monday, while searching for the missing aviator Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007....   (Associated Press)
The private airstrip near Yerington, Nev., at the ranch of hotel magnate William Baron Hilton, which was used on Monday, Sept. 3, 2007 by millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett is pictured Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007.  As the search for Fossett dragged into a second day Wednesday with some false leads but...
The private airstrip near Yerington, Nev., at the ranch of hotel magnate William Baron Hilton, which was used on Monday, Sept. 3, 2007 by millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett is pictured Wednesday, Sept....   (Associated Press)
A Civil Air Patrol takes off from the Minden-Tahoe Airport to continue the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, in Minden, Nev. A squadron of 10 airplanes and helicopters began a fourth day Thursday of a frustrating search for Fossett, whose small plane disappeared over Nevada's...
A Civil Air Patrol takes off from the Minden-Tahoe Airport to continue the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, in Minden, Nev. A squadron of 10 airplanes and helicopters...   (Associated Press)
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