Steve Fossett Missing: Help find him by searching satellite imagery

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Guys and Girls,

Please see this page if you want to help look for Steve Fossett.

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash

The PNG images may not load into IE BTW.

On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada. An airplane he was flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he is.

Through the generous efforts of individuals at several organizations, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts.
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Thanks.
 
Moses99p said:
those satellite image sites don't have real time feeds etc, the pictures can be really old :\
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Um......

Read the page, they are brand new images especially for the search.

IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you've loaded the following KML file below in Google Earth before navigating to the co-ordinates. Otherwise, you risk looking at old and irrelevant images.
 
david.n.c said:
and packed a chute and not been so god damn "i've flown round the world i'm invinsible"

this bloody annoys me, i mean grrrrrr just why didnt he follow proceedure and log a flight plan...its not like he was going down the road for som milk..he was flying a plane over miles and miles of desert! at what point did ommitting the flight plan seem a sound idea?:mad:
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Well for short distances you don't normally have to. He went out spotting for stuff and not from A to B. So his flight plan was "I am flying south".

Nice post BTW. :mad:
 
BTW whats with you lot, out of all the posts only 1 person has said "Yeah I'll help", most of the rest have just moaned.
 
He took off from this location:

38°37'7.01"N 119° 0'6.86"W (copy and paste into the flyto bar in GE.)

He said he was flying South, looking for dry lakebeds to do a world speed record attempt on.
 
Also in GE tools>Options set detail area to 1024x1024 Large and your elevation in ft. You need to be looking at an elevation of about 1500ft.

It is also a good idea to turn off Terrain in the layers box.
 
What do you guys make of this, directly south of airfield. Doesn't fully agree with the said scale.

38°30'48.76"N 118°59'9.21"W

Report it if needed (I have no amazon account)
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Hmm, if you turn on terrain, and get a perspective view it looks like a scar on the top of the hill/mountain. Cross referencing with the older images shows a difference, but nothing plane like (unless it was a hard impact). There are some similar marks in that vacinity, so could be ecological.

Thanks for the post, all the info you guys find is good stuff :-)
 
Energize said:
The black box transponders seem to work quite well after a crash. ;) Besides which, transponders can be set to constantly function providing atc with a constant location throughout the flight.
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On large commercial aircraft yes, little private ones, hmmm
 
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