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Searching for Fossett From Home
The search for Fossett has gone all the way to your personal computer.
Sept. 12, 2007 — -- From the remote Nevada desert to the calm comforts of living rooms and offices, the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett continues.
Fossett has been missing for over a week -- he disappeared while flying his private plane over the remote Nevada desert. Now thousands of people have joined the hunt to find him without ever leaving their homes.
Authorities believe if anyone could survive this, it would be Steve Fossett, the 63-year-old, skilled survivalist who made it through several failed attempts to circle the globe in a balloon.
But there has been no sign of him, nothing from his plane's emergency beacon, and not one signal from his hi-tech watch.
The search covers a 17,000 square mile area, two times the size of New Jersey.
And now the search extends far beyond that -- into the reaches of cyberspace, where thousands of volunteers are helping from home.
Some are logging onto Amazon.com's site, Mechanical Turk, a program with high resolution satellite images of the Nevada landscape that allows anyone to search.
Others, like friend and fellow aviation enthusiast Sir Richard Branson, are turning to Google's satellite mapping service to aid in the search.
With the help of these sites, anyone who sees what might resemble a plane can mark the image and send it on to the search experts.
"Never before in search and rescue have we had this capability. The one lead that finding Fossett is worth everything," said Maj. Ed Locke of the Nevada Air National Guard.
There have been false sightings, some of which have led to other discoveries. Eight additional wrecks spotted were from the air, small planes that until now had never been found.
One son now wonders if one the planes belonged to his father Charles Ogle, who was 41 when he took off in 1964 from Oakland, Calif., in his four-seat Cessna on his way to Reno and vanished.
"Since we spent a lot of time looking for my dad's plane, I know how hard this search is," William Ogle said.
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