Turn it off, water is leaking.

I'm not exactly sure what is motivating these searches. Is the wife paying people to find her husband's dead body?

That's because the sun sets in the west, somewhere in Arizona. Which is why the rocks are all red.

I was leaving Burning Man when Fossett was lost. The winds that day were phenomenal.

I can only imagine how bad they were in the lee of the Sierra Nevada range, at higher altitudes.

Nasty stuff.

I hope they find him alive, but it's not looking too good.

They are searching because they know it will help the family gain closure. Yes, they know he is dead, but until the body is recovered there is always the uncomfortable lack of knowledge that maybe he is out there suffering. It isn't a full blown search effort, just some volunteers who might be out there anyway taking a look in areas that he may have crashed isn't much of a burden.

Why dont they just use google earth?

We'll all be looking hard. Except for that peckerwood looney's son up in Tokis.

No ELT or PLB? He didn't want to be found.

Daedalus27: They are searching because they know it will help the family gain closure. Yes, they know he is dead, but until the body is recovered there is always the uncomfortable lack of knowledge that maybe he is out there suffering.

hmmmmm. Or partying it up with a new friend or brainwashed into a cult.

we all rise to the level of our incompetence-
for him, it was flying.



/peter principle
//tuxedomoon
///obligatory

"Whether we luck out and find the wreckage or not, at least our tracks will be preserved so that in the future if someone wants to give this a try they'll know where we already were and they can go to the next mountain range over,"

He's alive, and there's the set up to where he'll live

/right next to D.B.

Harry Belly: I hope they find him alive, but it's not looking too good.

After a year, that's an understatement.

Harry Belly: I hope they find him alive, but it's not looking too good.

Ya THINK?

Maybe he bought a winning lottery ticket and didn't want to share the winnings. Or maybe he is living with DB Cooper.

No need for snark. I just think sometimes no news is good news. Until we know for sure he's passed over, there is every reason to hope for a positive outcome. Stranger things have happened.

hes dead.

I wish the multimillionaire adventurer course was available when I attended school.

Harry Belly: No need for snark. I just think sometimes no news is good news. Until we know for sure he's passed over, there is every reason to hope for a positive outcome. Stranger things have happened.

This reads like a freakin horoscope.

Daedalus27
They are searching because they know it will help the family gain closure. Yes, they know he is dead, but until the body is recovered there is always the uncomfortable lack of knowledge that maybe he is out there suffering.

Perhaps they are worried that someone else will find the body and make them pay to get it back.

For instance, if I ever found the skull of John Denver, you really think I'd be giving that up? Hell no! Wall-mounted, baby!

yelmrog:
For instance, if I ever found the skull of John Denver, you really think I'd be giving that up? Hell no! Wall-mounted, baby!

Wow that is bad...


i did have to laugh though.

The insurance company won't pay without a corpse I bet.

yelmrog: Daedalus27
They are searching because they know it will help the family gain closure. Yes, they know he is dead, but until the body is recovered there is always the uncomfortable lack of knowledge that maybe he is out there suffering.

Perhaps they are worried that someone else will find the body and make them pay to get it back.

For instance, if I ever found the skull of John Denver, you really think I'd be giving that up? Hell no! Wall-mounted, baby!

Wow. I wonder what the rules are on that sort of thing?

This new search is motivated by the fact that he has an RFID chip implanted into his otherwise 'unremarkable anus.' The hush hush is because even with the use of 'cantennas' the range is limited. The government has re-tasked most of the UAVs meant for both Afghanistan and Iraq to the search for Fossett's body. Within his gizzard (yes, he had one) is embedded the gem that holds the secret to overunity generators.

"I wish the multimillionaire adventurer course was available when I attended school."

I can help with that.

Step 1: Become a multimillionaire.

xuanzhiyouxuan: This new search is motivated by the fact that he has an RFID chip implanted into his otherwise 'unremarkable anus.' The hush hush is because even with the use of 'cantennas' the range is limited. The government has re-tasked most of the UAVs meant for both Afghanistan and Iraq to the search for Fossett's body. Within his gizzard (yes, he had one) is embedded the gem that holds the secret to overunity generators.

That's just what the liberal mainstream media wants you to believe.

I for one cannot understand why he did not have a transponder in that plane. Also, he would have filed a flight plan, which would have shown his intended route.

He [was]is an expert pilot, something wrong here.

D.B. Coopoer update: As far as we can tell, he was a career criminal, who survived the parachute drop but lost the money. He went on to do an armed robbery and get busted for it, then he was caught and killed in an attempted jailbreak.

I heard a good piece on this on CBC radio. It seems the terrain is so extremely harsh that it takes a specially trained team to do it. They're searching a couple of hard to get to canyons that are plausible crash sites that can't be seen well from the air. It's volunteers who are eager to test their terrain-running skills, real fitness sorts with hiking, rock climbing, running skills as well as harsh environment training. From the interview it sounds like this terrain couldn't be any harsher unless it was on the Moon.

Who cares? It's just Juan Moore missing rich guy.

/what's with the hot linking notifications, I didn't get the memo?

I can't believe the lack of Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged references in this thread.

AliasUndercover: The insurance company won't pay without a corpse I bet.

They already did (not that it mattered anyway .. the man had boatloads of money).

/RTFA

Hard to believe that they are doing this on their own dime. Has his widow already burned through the cash? She can't cough up expenses for these people.

Hmmm. Maybe she doesn't want anything to be found...sugar in the gas tank...some control wires partly filed through...

Yow. That's a pretty harsh example of the Peter Principle.

He's got a million dollars, fer chrissakes.

He's prolly out doing two chicks at once...

eventhelosers: /what's with the hot linking notifications, I didn't get the memo?

Dude, I can't even figure out what hotlinking is.

/But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I have to think there's a morbid attraction to publicity, celebrity and money involved, locating a dead billionaire's crash site and body. Surprised it hasn't been pitched as a reality Tv series yet, for History Channel.

Since Apparently Ice Road truck driving is now "historical" somehow.

Doesn't he wear a Breitling Emergency? Assuming he was wearing the watch, he would've pulled the pin on that months ago, and he'd have been found...

eventhelosers: /what's with the hot linking notifications, I didn't get the memo?

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think in ImageShack's TOS it says you have to mention ImageShack on whatever page/post/etc in which you link to a photo hosted on their site, which turned into "/ImageShack cures cancer" which turned into people saying random stuff when they hotlink.

/obvious

I still say there's something fishy about his entire disappearance. The man was an experienced pilot and it's simply not believable that he would go on any flight without a transponder and sufficient emergency gear to survive.

Mart Laar's beard shaver: Harry Belly: I hope they find him alive, but it's not looking too good.

After a year, that's an understatement.

I've been on searches in that area. When they didn't find him by the third day, he was dead.

If D.B. Cooper survived, he didn't spend any of the money(aka lost it in the jump)

If I'm not mistaken, back in the late '80s/ early '90s didn't they find a rotting buried parachute that might or might not have been his(although I don't know of anyone else that would have reason to bury a chute) If he buried the chute I'd think he survived...

great job submitter, it's not often we get a Nasruddin reference. Bravo.

portscanner: Why dont they just use google earth?

They tried.

AliasUndercover: The insurance company won't pay without a corpse I bet.

Seriously, I'll bet you've nailed it...in this climate insurance co's are looking for a loophole to not serve up the goods.

olddinosaur: I for one cannot understand why he did not have a transponder in that plane. Also, he would have filed a flight plan, which would have shown his intended route.


Actually he probably wouldn't have filed a flight plan, and neither would almost any other pilot in his situation. He was flying VFR entirely within the United States and it is very uncommon for pilots to file a plan in these circumstances, especially given the fact that Fossett was just out there to tool around for a bit.

As for the transponder, I can't say whether or not the plane was equipped but I can say that as he was flying in uncontrolled airspace, there would have been no secondary radar to pick up the transponder's signal.

It wouldn't be the first aircraft to crash with a dead ELT battery.And he wasn't wearing the Breitling watch.Now thats not to say he ISN'T watching Jeopardy with Amelia Earhart ,but odds are he's never going to read this Fark comments page.

And why DID they name luggage after Amelia Earhart?

Any Pie Left: Since Apparently Ice Road truck driving is now "historical" somehow.

THIS.

What the fark happened to the History Channel? They stop running History's Lost and Found & Wild West Tech for Ice Road Truckers and UFO shiat. What the hell?

Yeah, they used to run a lot of WWII stuff...but it's the HISTORY CHANNEL for fark's sake.

Oldiron_79: If D.B. Cooper survived, he didn't spend any of the money(aka lost it in the jump)

If I'm not mistaken, back in the late '80s/ early '90s didn't they find a rotting buried parachute that might or might not have been his(although I don't know of anyone else that would have reason to bury a chute) If he buried the chute I'd think he survived...

They found some of his money in '80, a few months before Mt St Helens went critical. Covering the entire area in 8 feet of ash.

Other than that, know nothing.