Mr. Fossett, 63, went missing on Sept. 3, 2007, but his remains and aircraft were not found in the Sierra Nevada of California for more than a year. His airplane, a Bellanca 8KCAB-180 called the Super Decathalon, did not carry data recorders, but investigators determined that he had run into wind blowing downward at a speed estimated at 300 feet per minute or more, at a place where the air was so thin that the plane could climb at only about 300 feet per minute.
Full article by Matthew L.Wald on The New York Times
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