In 2007, at 8:45 a.m. on the morning of Monday, September 3, James Stephen “Steve” Fossett took off in a single-engine light aircraft near Smith Valley, NV. When he failed to return, searches were launched about six hours later. On September 29, 2008, a hiker found three crumpled identification cards in the eastern Sierra Nevada in California about 65 miles (100 km) south (186 degrees) of Fossett’s take-off site. #SteveFossett |
