Fossett search enters day 3
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews began their third full day searching for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett on Thursday after coming up with no clues despite an all-night mission by a plane carrying infrared equipment.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews searched a 10,000 sq mile area of the Nevada and California desert for a fifth day on Friday but still had no clue on the whereabouts of missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett.
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As the search for Steve Fossett dragged into its ninth day Tuesday, experts said they doubted the millionaire adventurer could have survived more than a week in the rugged desert since his plane vanished.
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Nevada authorities ended daily air patrols searching for U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett on Wednesday but insisted they had not given up hope and would still fly to possible crash sites if warranted.
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A search operation was launched last night for three crew members missing from a tug boat which capsized in thick fog on the River Clyde.
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World aviation record-holder Steve Fossett is missing and a massive search is under way in western Nevada, an aviation spokeswoman said today. Fossett holds the record for the first solo, non-stop, non-refueled airplane trip around the world.
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Flight teams were readying for a fourth full day of hunting for billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, in a process a spokeswoman for the Nevada Civil Air Patrol called painstakingly hard.
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing adventurer  Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend, British  billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through a  satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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_ A search continued Sunday for a man who police said shot and killed his estranged wife in front of their three children, then fled with the children.
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The hunt for missing aviator Steve Fossett in the rugged terrain of western Nevada could solve some much older mysteries. Searchers have turned up half a dozen previously undiscovered plane crash sites, and they believe there may be as many as 200 such sites around the Sierra Nevada range.
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(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk is enlisting human eyes to help in an online search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Mechanical Turk is a Web service hosted by Amazon that lets anyone combine human intelligence with computer programs. The site aims to make up for a specific failure that persists in computers. "Humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs -- something children can do even before they learn to speak," the site explains. Friends of Fossett have set up a project on Mechanical Turk that could help identify the location of his airplane. Fossett set out in the plane in Nevada on Sept. 3 and hasn't been heard from since. Anyone can visit the Mechanical Turk site and lend a hand. Instructions on the page ask participants to view satellite images within Google Earth of the region where Fossett is thought to be. If they see anything that might resemble the airplane, they can mark the satellite image as containing an object that should be looked at more closely. Participants are asked to mark an image if they are at all suspicious that it contains something of interest. The project also cautions people not to worry that missing a detail will be tragic, because many people will look at the same image. Marked images will be further examined by experts. Mechanical Turk was also enlisted in the hunt for Jim Gray, a prominent computer scientist who went missing after setting off on his sail boat earlier this year. He has not been found. The Fossett effort also includes airplane and helicopter searchers. Fossett is well-known for being the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refueling and also for making it around the world in a balloon. He has set 115 world records or world firsts, has swum the English Channel and completed the Iditarod, a dog sled race in Alaska, according to his Web site. While people helping to hunt for Fossett and Gray are volunteers, other Mechanical Turk projects pay participants, usually less than $0.25 per task. Mechanical Turk isn't the only online service that relies on human intelligence. ChaCha.com, a search engine launched last year, uses human "guides" to provide search results. A user inserts a search term and a remote worker searches for the answer, sending links to Web pages back to the user. The guide may be an expert in the subject the user is searching for so may be able to find better results than other search engines, according to ChaCha. Mahalo.com is another search site that uses people to compile results for common search terms. Workers weed out spam sites, pages with overbearing advertising and sites that use information without giving appropriate credit to the source.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews planned to search a vast area of the Nevada and California desert for a fifth day on Friday in the hope of spotting missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett.
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Satellite imaging program allows computer users to join search for missing aviator Steve Fossett.
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MINDEN, Nev., Sept. 8 -- Authorities expanded Saturday the size of the massive aerial search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett to a region about twice the size of New Jersey.
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High above a landscape of canyons and shadows, veteran pilot Jim Herd sees a tiny flash on a mountainside. A mirror? A piece of wreckage? A closer look reveals a prospector's small mine, the reflection most likely coming from metal fencing or some broken glass. It was just another false alarm during a week of mysteries and dashed hopes in the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett.
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A search is under way for a man who is thought to have been swept overboard in the North Sea.
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British billionaire Richard Branson said  on Wednesday he was hoping to trace missing U.S. adventurer  Steve Fossett through a satellite mapping service offered by  Internet data provider Google.