Steve Fossett

On Discovery Channel right now,
"Steve Fossett: What went wrong?"

"Steve" wrote in message
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On Discovery Channel right now,
"Steve Fossett: What went wrong?"
Replay at 2:00AM Eastern if you have a DVR (or insomnia).

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:15:58 -0700, "Steve" wrote in :

On Discovery Channel right now,
"Steve Fossett: What went wrong?"

Replay at 2:00AM Eastern if you have a DVR (or insomnia).

It was a very interesting show.

I'm glad I caught it.

I did about 1500 Amazon Mechanical Turk "hits."

Sounds as though the wreckage was just outside the
zone that folks were searching most intensively.

Surprising evidence at the end that he might have
survived the crash and started walking out.

Marty
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"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:15:58 -0700, "Steve"
wrote in :

On Discovery Channel right now,
"Steve Fossett: What went wrong?"

Replay at 2:00AM Eastern if you have a DVR (or insomnia).

It was a very interesting show.

I'm glad I caught it.

I did about 1500 Amazon Mechanical Turk "hits."

Sounds as though the wreckage was just outside the
zone that folks were searching most intensively.

Surprising evidence at the end that he might have
survived the crash and started walking out.

I missed the first 15 minutes or so, but it was very good. I was surprised
by their theory that he survived the crash and was walkng to Mammoth. The
crash investigators estimated he was doing 100MPH when he hit the rocks and
the plane disintegrated. It would be amazing for someone to survive that. It
would be incredible that someone could walk.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:41:08 -0700, "Steve" wrote in :

Surprising evidence at the end that he might have
survived the crash and started walking out.

I missed the first 15 minutes or so, but it was very good. I was surprised
by their theory that he survived the crash and was walkng to Mammoth. The
crash investigators estimated he was doing 100MPH when he hit the rocks and
the plane disintegrated. It would be amazing for someone to survive that. It
would be incredible that someone could walk.

It will be interesting to see if the theory is borne
out by the NTSB study. They may be able to tell
what shape the cockpit might have been in at the
end of the crash sequence.

From browsing around, it sounds as though it might
not have taken a very mighty wind to keep the Citabria
from cresting the ridge (if that is what he was trying
to do).

RIP and condolences to his family and friends.

Marty
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"Steve" wrote:
I missed the first 15 minutes or so, but it was very good. I was surprised
by their theory that he survived the crash and was walkng to Mammoth. The
crash investigators estimated he was doing 100MPH when he hit the rocks and
the plane disintegrated. It would be amazing for someone to survive that. It
would be incredible that someone could walk.

That's all speculation. Curious...as a guy, when you fly, do you keep
your identification cards and money in your wallet, in your pocket? or
in a separate bag somewhere else in the airplane?

"Shirl" wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote:
I missed the first 15 minutes or so, but it was very good. I was
surprised
by their theory that he survived the crash and was walkng to Mammoth. The
crash investigators estimated he was doing 100MPH when he hit the rocks
and
the plane disintegrated. It would be amazing for someone to survive that.
It
would be incredible that someone could walk.

That's all speculation. Curious...as a guy, when you fly, do you keep
your identification cards and money in your wallet, in your pocket? or
in a separate bag somewhere else in the airplane?

Cards in my wallet, money in my pocket.

"Shirl" wrote

That's all speculation. Curious...as a guy, when you fly, do you keep
your identification cards and money in your wallet, in your pocket? or
in a separate bag somewhere else in the airplane?

Either way. It can be uncomfortable to sit on a fat wallet for a period of
time, especially in a cramped cockpit, and the harder the seat cushions, the
more uncomfortable it is.
--
Jim in NC

"Steve" wrote

I missed the first 15 minutes or so, but it was very good. I was surprised
by their theory that he survived the crash and was walkng to Mammoth. The
crash investigators estimated he was doing 100MPH when he hit the rocks
and the plane disintegrated. It would be amazing for someone to survive
that. It would be incredible that someone could walk.

I missed it completely, mostly on purpose. I thought it would be lousy.
I'll have to catch it on the reruns.

From looking at the pictures of the crash scene, I can not imagine how it
would be possible to survive an impact like that. From the distance the
engine went after impact, he was going very fast, and stopped very quickly.
Not good combinations for the human body.

As others have said, I'll await the NTSB final report, to see if they can
add anything.
--
Jim in NC

"Shirl" wrote in message
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| That's all speculation. Curious...as a guy, when you fly, do you keep
| your identification cards and money in your wallet, in your pocket? or
| in a separate bag somewhere else in the airplane?

Cards and money in my wallet, in my pocket.