Hiker 'discovers Fossett's belongings'
A HIKER in a rugged part of California has found a pilot's licence and other items possibly belonging to Steve Fossett, the adventurer who vanished on a solo flight in a borrowed plane more than a year ago, authorities said yesterday.
Preston Morrow said he found a Federal Aviation Administration identity card, a pilot's licence, a third ID and $1,005 (about 570) tangled in a bush off a trail near the town of Mammoth Lakes on Monday. He turned the items in to local police yesterday after unsuccessful attempts to contact Fossett's family.
Search teams have been dispatched to the scene, and an air and ground effort was expected to be launched.
Mr Morrow found no sign of a plane or human remains. Fossett disappeared on 3 September, 2007 and was declared legally dead in February.
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