A hiker in California has found two aviation identification cards belonging to millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2007
The wife of American adventurer Steve Fossett has asked a court to declare him legally dead, nearly three months after his small plane vanished over the Nevada wilderness, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Peggy Fossett filed a court petition in Cook County, Illinois, on Monday asking that the millionaire aviator’s assets be distributed according to his will.
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/ 18 September 2007
Nevada authorities are scaling down the search for United States adventurer Steve Fossett after an intensive two-week effort, officials said on Monday. ”It arrives at the point when the mission has to evolve,” Major Cynthia Ryan of the Nevada civil air patrol told Reuters.
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/ 15 September 2007
Doug Taggart was determined to make the most of his last day of flying on Friday. He was up in the air by 6.30am and would not be back home until 7pm. That would give him up to seven hours solid searching for the man whom he had met once at a hot-air balloon festival in Albuquerque and for whom he had the ”greatest admiration”.
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/ 11 September 2007
For a moment on Sunday, rescuers in Nevada searching for the aviator Steve Fossett thought they might have found what they were looking for. Reporters were summoned to Minden-Tahoe airport and a helicopter was scrambled to check out a possible sighting of the wreckage of a single-engine aircraft.
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/ 9 September 2007
Hope was fading that the missing multi-millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett would be found alive following his disappearance on Monday while flying a small plane over the vast Nevada desert, as it was revealed on Saturday that he had taken only one canteen of water with him.
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/ 8 September 2007
The search for United States adventurer Steve Fossett, missing in the rugged Nevada desert for five days, was expanded again on Friday. Captain April Conway, spokesperson for the Nevada Air National Guard, told reporters the air search had been extended to 44 000 square kilometres.
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/ 7 September 2007
Air crews planned to search a vast area of the Nevada and California desert for a fifth day on Friday in the hope of spotting missing United States adventurer Steve Fossett. Two aircraft equipped with infrared technology flew throughout Thursday night looking for the 63-year-old millionaire and aviation record-setter.
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/ 6 September 2007
Rescue planes and a helicopter were launched over Nevada’s rugged terrain at dawn on Wednesday as the search for the millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett entered its third day. Fossett took off from a Nevada ranch owned by the Hilton family at 9am on Monday.
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/ 5 September 2007
Steve Fossett, the adventurer who cheated death several times during his perambulations around the globe by air and sea, was missing on Tuesday night after taking off from a ranch in Nevada for a short flight in a single-engine plane. Rescue teams were scouring the rugged terrain of western Nevada on Tuesday for a plane wreck or any other trace of Fossett.