Fossett Search Continues
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RENO – Rescue crews were headed to another potential sighting of Steve Fossett’s plane this afternoon near where the famous aviator took off on Labor Day.
The sighting occurred within a 50-mile radius of the airstrip about 80 miles southeast of Reno, said a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife assisting in the search operation, Kim Toulouse.
“We have aircraft and ground forces en route to that location,” Ms. Toulouse told reporters, refusing to take any questions.
At least six times during the past week search and rescue crews have spotted airplane wreckage they thought might be Ms. Fossett’s only to learn they were from crashes years and sometimes decades ago.
