Steve Fossett's airplane found

California authorities have confirmed that the wreckage of a plane they found is that of Steve Fossett.

• Steve Fosset disappeard on September 3, 2007
• Steve Fosset declared dead on November 26, 2007

On September 29, 2008, Preston Morrow, 43, a ski shop owner
hiking near Mammoth Lakes, California, about 80 miles (129 km) SSE of Fossett's take-off site, found three crumpled FAA-issued cards confirmed as Fossett's (a Soaring Society of America membership card with Fossett's name) and about 10 weathered $100 bills and one $5 bill. The following day near the same location the same hiker found a sweatshirt that he believed had both human and animal hair on it. On October 2, 2008, air search teams spotted wreckage on the ground within 10 miles (16 km) from where the personal items were found.]

Morrow said they also found "a black Nautica pullover fleece, size XL, in the same area, but left it in place after gathering GPS coordinates to turn over to investigators."

On October 2nd, rescue crews on the ground located the wreckage of a small plane. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that the small airplane first sighted from the air late the previous day "appears to be the aircraft piloted by Steve Fossett" but did not say anything about finding Fossett's remains