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Offline Eagler

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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2008, 03:35:21 PM »
my guess
auto pilot and a heart attack
or
auto pilot and bailed out

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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2008, 03:36:39 PM »
If he was in and lawndarted, some remains will be found.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2008, 03:41:15 PM »
Maybe he got saved by Bigfoot.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2008, 03:59:15 PM »
Quote from: Maniac on October 02, 2008, 03:41:15 PM
Maybe he got saved by Bigfoot.
We shot the last remaining bigfoot. He's mounted in the bar at the Ravensdale Sport and Shooting Club in Maplevalley, Washington.

Sorry, we didn't know he was the last one.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2008, 06:34:43 PM »
 are ya sure that's not Fosset that's mounted in the bar at the Ravensdale Sport and Shooting Club?   :(
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2008, 07:02:18 PM »
Maybe he was scudruning over familiar terrain, or flying "IFR" in clouds via GPS terrain avoidance hoping to get past some weather? :salute
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2008, 07:10:23 PM »
The weather that day was beautiful, so weather was quite probably not a factor.

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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2008, 07:19:46 PM »
The latest show they did in deed find remains.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26976119/?GT1=43001

At least there's some degree of closure for the family now.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2008, 08:21:09 PM »
That area is notorious for wind shear and mountain wave. Small plane like that could easily be squished in a big down draft. :(
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2008, 08:27:04 PM »
Quote from: Dos Equis on October 02, 2008, 03:30:01 PM
You may find bones, maybe a skull - but the report says he lawndarted at high speed.

Yeah, but you figure they would at least find some fragments.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2008, 08:27:59 PM »
Quote from: Rollins on October 02, 2008, 07:19:46 PM
The latest show they did in deed find remains.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26976119/?GT1=43001

At least there's some degree of closure for the family now.

ahh, nm
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2008, 08:43:48 PM »
Remains were found, sufficient for a DNA test t least.

FWIW the aircraft he was flying is not one normally equipped with autopilot equipment. The appears to be another case of CFIT, controlled flight into terrain. Even vastly experienced pilots can make a mistake.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2008, 08:57:50 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on October 02, 2008, 08:43:48 PM
Remains were found, sufficient for a DNA test t least.

FWIW the aircraft he was flying is not one normally equipped with autopilot equipment. The appears to be another case of CFIT, controlled flight into terrain. Even vastly experienced pilots can make a mistake.

I got a lot of hours flying over that terrain - its no toejam, if you get schwacked by a mountain wave - short of a RATO you aren't gonna power out of it. Especially in the normally aspirated dragger he was rolling around in.
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2008, 03:31:37 AM »
Yup, mountain waves are naughty. We have some bad places in our country as well, so some aircraft have been smacked into a glacier. Then there is visibility.
Same story with Greenland, where you just have mountains rising steeply some 10K from the sea.
I recall a DC-4 pilot who almost ened his days there (visibility issue), but got our by a hair's width by forcing the aircraft into a hammerhead. With passengers and all. Well, he was an old fighter jock....
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Re: Steve Fossett wreckage Found
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2008, 06:42:40 AM »
I spent 3 years in Alaska & the landscape is littered with AC fragments where someone thought he had sufficient altitude to clear the top, only to find himself in a down draft with no place to go except into the ground.  :noid  :uhoh :pray
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