Search to resume for Steve Fossett
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Searchers were scheduled to begin looking again Wednesday for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared in a single-engine plane after taking off from a friend's desert ranch, the Civil Air Patrol said.
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The search for adventurer Steve Fossett was expanded by thousands of square miles as it entered a fourth day Thursday, with rescuers warning it could be weeks before the missing aviator is found.
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By ELBERT AULL Staff Writer The Associated Press contributed to this report.  Game wardens are scheduled to resume their search this morning for a Massachusetts man who went missing after a snowmobile accident on Sebago Lake late Saturday.
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Weary searchers scouring Mount Hood for three missing climbers had no luck Saturday and were returning to their bases, authorities said. Air searches with Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane were to continue around the clock, authorities said The ground search is to resume early Sunday, weather permitting.
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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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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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Teams search for adventurer's aircraft Rescue teams are scouring tracts of Nevada in the hope of locating missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fosset, who took off on Monday in a single-engined aircraft to scout possible locations for a planned attempt on the world land-speed record, AP reports.â¦
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The search for three crewmen feared dead after a tug capsized in heavy fog on the River Clyde is due to resume.
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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  - U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.
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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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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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Tools from Google Earth and Amazon.com are being applied by users to help in the effort to find missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett.
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The search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett neared the one-week mark on Sunday, with aircraft once again taking to the skies above a vast expanse of wilderness to hunt for the millionaire aviator, officials said.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 -- Hundreds of rescuers in trucks, airplanes and helicopters searched for adventurer Steve Fossett in the Nevada desert yesterday but came up with only false sightings, authorities said.
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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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Pilots brushed off a series of false sightings and scoured Nevada's high desert Saturday as the massive aerial search for Steve Fossett grew more urgent nearly a week after the adventurer's disappearance.