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Subject: | Steve Fossett N240R crash - pont of interest - anomoly |
In looking at the RGJ.com Reno Gazette photos of the Fossett crash it is interesting
to note that the back right cylinder (not sure of the number) seems to have
the cylinder head detached. I guess that the NTSB will have to determine if
the separation is pre or post crash.
The crash site is approx at the halfway point of a line drawn between Thousand
Island lake and Devils Postpile. It is just a few hundred feet off the old trail
to the Minaret Mine.
Interesting that the area was flown over 19 times after the crash occurred by the
CAP.
Also it is a fairly well traveled area and there was apparently a small post crash
fire. I have long suspected that Fossett crashed in the Sierras rather than
in rural Nevada. Amazing that it took so long to find the crash site and that
nobody observed him flying low that day or saw the small post crash fire.
Fossett was a great sportsman in the spirit of Messner, Hillary and a hundred others
who pushed the human envelope. Just a month earlier he had a marvelous talk
at OSH where he related how he had broken the all time soaring record for
absolute altitude in a glider over the Andes (50,727 ft). He was working with
a team in Reno on the land speed record when he died. Steve held over 60 world
records at the time of his death.
An amazing guy or look up on wikopedia - we will miss you Steve
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