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Adventurer Steve Fossett's plane missing
by Delia Cruceru

The great adventurer Steve Fosset is still missing. The millionaire took off Monday from a Nevada airstrip at hotel magnate Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, in single-engine plane looking for dry lake beds and sagebrush to be suitable for his next record as he wanted to set the land-speed record in a turbojet racer. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said that teams are searching areas from west Nevada but it's kind of difficult because he didn't file a flight plan. "They are working on some leads, but they don't know where he is right now," he said. Sir Richard Branson a good friend of his stated that Fosset was flying alone carrying four full tanks of gas on board searching for dry lake beds that might be suitable for an attempt to break the land speed record in a car. "Steve is a tough old boot. I suspect he is waiting by his plane right now for someone to pick him up," he said. "The ranch he took off from covers a huge area, and Steve has had far tougher challenges to overcome in the past. Based on his track record, I feel confident we'll get some good news soon." Fosset was known as a very active person, he became in 2002 the first person to fly solo around the world in a balloon, and in 2005 he set the record as the first person to fly an airplane solo around the world without refueling.

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