Steve Fossett Update

On Oct 7, 2:33 pm, Tech Support wrote:

I lost a couple of good FACs in VN flying in mountains with a strong
wind. Neither were mountain qualified Pilots.

My WAG is that he probably bought it due to down drafts in strong wind
in mountains.

Will have to see what NTSB comes up with for final analysis.

Even the most experienced mountain pilot can encounter conditions that
are beyond his skill and the aircrafts performance.

Rotor would be my guess

george wrote in news:2521c7e7-a163-4f56-9f6a-
:

On Oct 7, 2:33 pm, Tech Support wrote:

I lost a couple of good FACs in VN flying in mountains with a strong
wind. Neither were mountain qualified Pilots.

My WAG is that he probably bought it due to down drafts in strong wind
in mountains.

Will have to see what NTSB comes up with for final analysis.

Even the most experienced mountain pilot can encounter conditions that
are beyond his skill and the aircrafts performance.

Rotor would be my guess


CB was mentioned...


Bertie

On Oct 6, 8:33*pm, Tech Support wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:14:12 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

es330td writes:

That wreckage looks brutal. *It took me a while to figure out that
orange and white painted piece of metal was the trailing underside of
a wing.

What could be the cause? *He was presumably a good pilot, and from what I
understand the weather was clear. *And yet the news says it looks like the
aircraft hit the mountain head on. *Mechanical failure? *Sudden incapacitation
of the pilot? *Bad piloting (seems unlikely, with all he had survived
previously)? *Suicide?

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I lost a couple of good FACs in VN flying in mountains with a strong
wind. Neither were mountain qualified Pilots.

My WAG is that he probably bought it due to down drafts in strong wind
in mountains.

Will have to see what NTSB comes up with for final analysis.

Big John

No bones recovered... gotta think he bailed out and went off to the
islands to enjoy...JG

On Oct 11, 11:46 am, JG wrote:

No bones recovered... gotta think he bailed out and went off to the
islands to enjoy...JG

Animals that die in the bush are completely used up by other
animals. In the years I have spent in the bush, I have encountered
very few bones of any sort. My father found the rotting carcass of a
bear that someone had shot from across a river without the means of
retrieving it (one of the stupidities of some hunters) and when he and
I visited the site a year later there was no trace of it. No hair, no
bones, nothing. Other animals tear it apart and drag it all away. When
airplanes go missing in the mountains here and are eventually found
years later, the bodies are usually gone but evidence in the form of
belt buckles, watches and rings are often found. Only if the fuselage
is closed up tight and scavenger-proof might there be more than that.

Dan

wrote

Only if the fuselage
is closed up tight and scavenger-proof might there be more than that.

Yep. Only if the plane is military, and has crew protection in the form of
an armor bathtub, with bullet proof windows, will it be truly bear proof.

A determined bear can go right through a car's windshield, or through the
sheet metal roof, trunk lid, or any other place they choose, if they are
hungry enough.

Fossett enjoyed the limelight, and was always going from adventure to the
next adventure, to stay in the limelight.

He would be the last person to decide to disappear to seclusion. It just
was not his style.
--
Jim in NC

"JG" wrote ...
My WAG is that he probably bought it due to down drafts
in strong wind in mountains.

Was he operating on the windward side of the ridge? Locals reported some
clouds over the ridges.

My WAG:
He gets into hard updraft, cuts power, noses down,
ASI increasing, still climbing, noses over more,
VSI still positive, ...oops now he's in IMC,
......the ASI is in the upper yellow, ...damn this cloud,
......Oh Sh*t .... the VSI just swung around to -2K,
......BANG!

Not the first, ... not the last.