Steve Fossett Update

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Dave wrote:
On Oct 2, 3:14 pm, 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?

Another mystery is why no one witnessed the crash (and resulting
fire). Mammoth Lakes is a small city - and the
surrounding area would have had many people about on a holiday
weekend.

The Mammoth Lakes area is a huge wilderness area and you can go for
hours without seeing signs of humans; he didn't crash in the city.

From the map I saw, the crash site was west and a little to the north of
Mammoth mountain which would have been well out of site of the town.