Steve Fossett

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Newps,

That's a bad analogy, we're not looking for one airplane in a sea of
other planes. Remove all the planes in the picture except one. Now try
and find the one plane.


Hey, "we" can't even find Osama when "we" have 6 years to try (in a similar
landscape, I might add).

True, but I don't think Fossett is trying to not be found. :-)

Matt

yeah he's certainly not evading but the big question is "why didn't his elt
go off ?"
what scenarios fit this ... he experienced a health problem and got the
plane down ?
doesn't seem like an experienced pilot like him would forget to set it off
by hand after a forced landing ....
Do they sometimes fail to go off on impact ?



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Thomas Borchert wrote:
Newps,

That's a bad analogy, we're not looking for one airplane in a sea of
other planes. Remove all the planes in the picture except one. Now try
and find the one plane.


Hey, "we" can't even find Osama when "we" have 6 years to try (in a
similar landscape, I might add).

True, but I don't think Fossett is trying to not be found. :-)

Matt

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:27:35 +0900, "donzaemon" wrote:

yeah he's certainly not evading but the big question is "why didn't his elt
go off ?"
what scenarios fit this ... he experienced a health problem and got the
plane down ?
doesn't seem like an experienced pilot like him would forget to set it off
by hand after a forced landing ....
Do they sometimes fail to go off on impact ?

As someone else posted, severe crashes can sever the ELT antenna. Sadly, it's
the scenario that best fits the apparent lack of signals from either his ELT or
his wrist-mounted PLB.

Ron Wanttaja

Donzaemon,

Do they sometimes fail to go off on impact ?


More often than sometimes, it seems. If they are not 406-Mhz-units,
that doesn't help either.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

donzaemon wrote:
yeah he's certainly not evading but the big question is "why didn't his
elt go off ?"
what scenarios fit this ... he experienced a health problem and got the
plane down ?
doesn't seem like an experienced pilot like him would forget to set it
off by hand after a forced landing ....
Do they sometimes fail to go off on impact ?

Yes, they do fail sometimes to go off on impact.

Matt