Steve Fossett, l'aventurier, disparu
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Bon c'est du domaine aéronautique mais c'est un aventurier précurseur comme beaucoup d'astronautes-cosmonautes pionniers.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070905/tts-usa-fossett-ca02f96_1.html
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[color=green]RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - L'aventurier américain Steve Fossett, célèbre pour ses vols en solitaire autour du monde en ballon et en avion, a disparu après avoir décollé aux commandes d'un petit appareil dans le Nevada.Le pilote, âgé de 63 ans, a été vu pour la dernière fois lundi soir décollant d'un ranch aux commandes d'un monomoteur Citabra Super Decathlon, a fait savoir l'aviation civile américaine (Federal aviation administration, FAA).
La FAA a déclaré que Fossett n'avait pas déposé de plan de vol. Il n'a pas été en communication avec les contrôleurs aériens qui n'ont reçu aucun signal de détresse.
"C'est un secteur difficile, montagneux, il n'y a pas beaucoup de routes, c'est rocailleux; c'est un peu comme l'Afghanistan", a déclaré à Reuters le commandant Douglas Russel, de la base aéronavale de Fallon, dans le Nevada.
Dans une conférence de presse organisée à l'aéroport de Minden-Tahoe, à environ 75km au sud de Reno, des responsables de l'aviation civile ont fait savoir que 13 avions avaient été déployés pour retrouver l'aéronef de Fossett dans le désert. Mais les vents forcissent et pourraient entraîner une interruption des recherches.
L'homme d'affaires britannique Richard Branson, qui s'est associé avec Fossett dans plusieurs des nombreux défis qu'il s'est fixé, a dit que ce dernier effectuait un repérage en survolant des lacs asséchés en vue d'une tentative de record mondial de vitesse au sol.
"Steve est un dur. Je pense qu'il attend en ce moment même à côté de son avion que quelqu'un vienne le chercher", déclare Branson dans un communiqué publié à Londres.
"Au vu de son bilan, je suis assez persuadé que nous aurons bientôt de ses nouvelles."
Le Californien est le premier homme à avoir accompli le tour du monde en solitaire en montgolfière en 2002, puis en avion en 2005. Il a établi 115 records dans les domaines les plus divers: montgolfière, avion, bateau, planeur.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070905/tts-usa-fossett-ca02f96_1.html
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[color=green]RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - L'aventurier américain Steve Fossett, célèbre pour ses vols en solitaire autour du monde en ballon et en avion, a disparu après avoir décollé aux commandes d'un petit appareil dans le Nevada.Le pilote, âgé de 63 ans, a été vu pour la dernière fois lundi soir décollant d'un ranch aux commandes d'un monomoteur Citabra Super Decathlon, a fait savoir l'aviation civile américaine (Federal aviation administration, FAA).
La FAA a déclaré que Fossett n'avait pas déposé de plan de vol. Il n'a pas été en communication avec les contrôleurs aériens qui n'ont reçu aucun signal de détresse.
"C'est un secteur difficile, montagneux, il n'y a pas beaucoup de routes, c'est rocailleux; c'est un peu comme l'Afghanistan", a déclaré à Reuters le commandant Douglas Russel, de la base aéronavale de Fallon, dans le Nevada.
Dans une conférence de presse organisée à l'aéroport de Minden-Tahoe, à environ 75km au sud de Reno, des responsables de l'aviation civile ont fait savoir que 13 avions avaient été déployés pour retrouver l'aéronef de Fossett dans le désert. Mais les vents forcissent et pourraient entraîner une interruption des recherches.
L'homme d'affaires britannique Richard Branson, qui s'est associé avec Fossett dans plusieurs des nombreux défis qu'il s'est fixé, a dit que ce dernier effectuait un repérage en survolant des lacs asséchés en vue d'une tentative de record mondial de vitesse au sol.
"Steve est un dur. Je pense qu'il attend en ce moment même à côté de son avion que quelqu'un vienne le chercher", déclare Branson dans un communiqué publié à Londres.
"Au vu de son bilan, je suis assez persuadé que nous aurons bientôt de ses nouvelles."
Le Californien est le premier homme à avoir accompli le tour du monde en solitaire en montgolfière en 2002, puis en avion en 2005. Il a établi 115 records dans les domaines les plus divers: montgolfière, avion, bateau, planeur.
C'est curieux mais cela me rappelle la disparition de Scott Crossfield dans un stupide accident aux commandes de son petit avion particulier voici un an ou deux... :(
Espèrons juste que cela se termine autrement :|
Quelquefois le risque se cache là oû l'on ne l'attend pas... :|
Espèrons juste que cela se termine autrement :|
Quelquefois le risque se cache là oû l'on ne l'attend pas... :|
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Il a disparu (perdu sa trace). Il n'y a pas eu d'annonce de décès...
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updated 1 hour ago Branson fears missing Fossett is injured
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/fossett.missing/index.html
MINDEN, Nevada (CNN) -- Fellow aviation enthusiast Sir Richard Branson said Wednesday he was worried that rescuers had found no sign of his friend, adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared two days ago after taking off from another friend's desert ranch.
Sir Richard Branson, left, kisses Steve Fossett in February 2006, after Fossett landed in Bournemouth, England.
1 of 2 However, the billionaire president of Virgin Atlantic also was optimistic that Fossett -- whom he calls "a tough old boot" -- will surface soon.
"If he's landed and he's not too badly hurt, he's the one person in the world who will be mentally and physically equipped to get out of it," Branson said.
Rescuers began looking again Wednesday for Fossett.
Search organizers at the Minden-Tahoe Airport, just south of Carson City, Nevada, said they expect the weather will not hamper search efforts, as it did Tuesday.
"The winds have cooperated much more today, so that will allow the helicopters -- the three being dispatched out here today -- to fly much closer to the ground to get a better look at what's going on," said Chuck Allen, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.
Five planes being used in the search will be able to cruise at about 1,000 feet, the spokesman said.
Though there were no signs of Fossett on Tuesday evening, searchers and friends remained optimistic that the eclectic adventurer was safe.
"We're confident if his plane only sustained minor damage that he's strong enough to survive the elements." Allen said.
Fossett, 63, was in a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon when he took off at 9 a.m. (noon ET) Monday in good flying conditions from hotel magnate Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, Ryan said.
A world-record-holding pilot, yachtsman and balloonist, Fossett is an accomplished sportsman who knows how to handle himself in the wild.
In addition to skippering flights and voyages around the globe, Fossett has competed in cross-country skiing competitions, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race and the Ironman Triathlon. He also swam the English Channel and ran in the Leadville Trail Run, a 100-mile foot race through the Colorado Rockies.
He has prevailed in the past after experiencing complications during a flight, once walking 30 miles for help after making a forced landing, said the Civil Air Patrol's Maj. Cynthia Ryan, who is leading the search effort.
Branson -- whose Virgin Atlantic company has sponsored some of Fossett's attempts to shatter world flight records -- said Tuesday that Fossett's track record suggests "we'll get some good news soon." Watch as Branson expresses concern for his pal »
"Steve is a tough old boot. I suspect he is waiting by his plane right now for someone to pick him up," Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, said in a written statement. "The ranch he took off from covers a huge area, and Steve has had far tougher challenges to overcome in the past."
Branson struck a more cautious tone Wednesday, saying he was "obviously worried" that Fossett may be injured because he was wearing a watch capable of emitting an emergency distress signal. If Fossett were OK, Branson surmised, he would've been able to activate the manually operated signal.
However, he added, "If anyone's going to end up walking back up [to] the ranch and apologizing for pranging the Hiltons' plane, it's likely to be Steve Fossett."
Though Ryan was optimistic that Fossett will be located, she noted the challenges facing the rescue mission -- namely a 600-square-mile swath of desert, covered with sagebrush and deep ravines, and swept by tricky wind conditions that confounded Tuesday's aerial search.
"It's a very large haystack," she said. "And an airplane is a very small needle. No doubt about that."
Fossett was supposed to return to the Hilton ranch, about 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, at noon (3 p.m. ET) Monday. The search began six hours later, Ryan said.
Fossett did not file a flight plan, but one is not required on flights using visual navigation.
When he left, he had four to five hours of fuel for flight, Ryan said.
Fossett's bio
• Set 115 world records or world firsts
• Still holds official world records in five sports
• First person to fly nonstop around the world
• Has also circumnavigated globe in yacht and balloon
• Competed in cross-country skiing competitions, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Ironman Triathlon and 24-Hours of Le Mans. Also swam English Channel.
Source: Steve Fossett Challenges Web site "Steve took off toward the south and was going to fly southbound, looking around for some dry lake beds for some plans he had for the future," Ryan said.
Those plans, she said, involved testing a vehicle in an attempt to set a world land speed record. Fossett was in Sparks, Nevada, last month preparing a jet racer to break the land speed record at Bonneville Flats in northwest Utah.
Ryan said Tuesday authorities were analyzing information from radar intelligence to track Fossett.
There has been no sound detected from the plane's emergency locator radio beacon, which goes off if there is a hard impact.
In 2005, Fossett piloted the first nonstop, solo flight around the world without refueling.
Virgin Atlantic sponsored the plane, the GlobalFlyer, which Fossett used a year later to break the world's flight distance record, traveling almost 26,000 miles in 76 hours and 43 minutes from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Bournemouth, England.
He made an emergency landing during that flight after electricity on the aircraft failed over Shannon, Ireland. His goal had been to land at Kent International Airport in Manston, England. Watch a look back at Fossett's myriad records and adventures
In 2002, he achieved the first solo balloon flight around the world, traveling 20,626 miles in 14 days. He's credited with 115 world records or world firsts, and holds official world records in five sports, according to his Web site.
In a interview with CNN last year, Fossett said his favorite record-breaking feat was the 2002 solo balloon flight.
"We had to really upgrade the technical capability of balloons, and the flight was much more difficult than I'd ever imagined it would be. I tried six times over the course of six years before succeeding," he said.
Asked how long he'll keep going, Fossett answered, "I imagine that when I'm 80 years old and sitting in a wheelchair that I might do something like take a remote control airplane and try and fly it around the world. I plan to be setting and breaking records indefinitely."
Fossett was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and grew up in California, where he attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in economics in 1966.
After earning an MBA at Washington University in St. Louis, he became a commodities broker and launched in 1980 the Chicago-based securities company Lakota Trading, the income from which he used to fund his adventures.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/fossett.missing/index.html
MINDEN, Nevada (CNN) -- Fellow aviation enthusiast Sir Richard Branson said Wednesday he was worried that rescuers had found no sign of his friend, adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared two days ago after taking off from another friend's desert ranch.
Sir Richard Branson, left, kisses Steve Fossett in February 2006, after Fossett landed in Bournemouth, England.
1 of 2 However, the billionaire president of Virgin Atlantic also was optimistic that Fossett -- whom he calls "a tough old boot" -- will surface soon.
"If he's landed and he's not too badly hurt, he's the one person in the world who will be mentally and physically equipped to get out of it," Branson said.
Rescuers began looking again Wednesday for Fossett.
Search organizers at the Minden-Tahoe Airport, just south of Carson City, Nevada, said they expect the weather will not hamper search efforts, as it did Tuesday.
"The winds have cooperated much more today, so that will allow the helicopters -- the three being dispatched out here today -- to fly much closer to the ground to get a better look at what's going on," said Chuck Allen, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.
Five planes being used in the search will be able to cruise at about 1,000 feet, the spokesman said.
Though there were no signs of Fossett on Tuesday evening, searchers and friends remained optimistic that the eclectic adventurer was safe.
"We're confident if his plane only sustained minor damage that he's strong enough to survive the elements." Allen said.
Fossett, 63, was in a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon when he took off at 9 a.m. (noon ET) Monday in good flying conditions from hotel magnate Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, Ryan said.
A world-record-holding pilot, yachtsman and balloonist, Fossett is an accomplished sportsman who knows how to handle himself in the wild.
In addition to skippering flights and voyages around the globe, Fossett has competed in cross-country skiing competitions, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race and the Ironman Triathlon. He also swam the English Channel and ran in the Leadville Trail Run, a 100-mile foot race through the Colorado Rockies.
He has prevailed in the past after experiencing complications during a flight, once walking 30 miles for help after making a forced landing, said the Civil Air Patrol's Maj. Cynthia Ryan, who is leading the search effort.
Branson -- whose Virgin Atlantic company has sponsored some of Fossett's attempts to shatter world flight records -- said Tuesday that Fossett's track record suggests "we'll get some good news soon." Watch as Branson expresses concern for his pal »
"Steve is a tough old boot. I suspect he is waiting by his plane right now for someone to pick him up," Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, said in a written statement. "The ranch he took off from covers a huge area, and Steve has had far tougher challenges to overcome in the past."
Branson struck a more cautious tone Wednesday, saying he was "obviously worried" that Fossett may be injured because he was wearing a watch capable of emitting an emergency distress signal. If Fossett were OK, Branson surmised, he would've been able to activate the manually operated signal.
However, he added, "If anyone's going to end up walking back up [to] the ranch and apologizing for pranging the Hiltons' plane, it's likely to be Steve Fossett."
Though Ryan was optimistic that Fossett will be located, she noted the challenges facing the rescue mission -- namely a 600-square-mile swath of desert, covered with sagebrush and deep ravines, and swept by tricky wind conditions that confounded Tuesday's aerial search.
"It's a very large haystack," she said. "And an airplane is a very small needle. No doubt about that."
Fossett was supposed to return to the Hilton ranch, about 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, at noon (3 p.m. ET) Monday. The search began six hours later, Ryan said.
Fossett did not file a flight plan, but one is not required on flights using visual navigation.
When he left, he had four to five hours of fuel for flight, Ryan said.
Fossett's bio
• Set 115 world records or world firsts
• Still holds official world records in five sports
• First person to fly nonstop around the world
• Has also circumnavigated globe in yacht and balloon
• Competed in cross-country skiing competitions, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Ironman Triathlon and 24-Hours of Le Mans. Also swam English Channel.
Source: Steve Fossett Challenges Web site "Steve took off toward the south and was going to fly southbound, looking around for some dry lake beds for some plans he had for the future," Ryan said.
Those plans, she said, involved testing a vehicle in an attempt to set a world land speed record. Fossett was in Sparks, Nevada, last month preparing a jet racer to break the land speed record at Bonneville Flats in northwest Utah.
Ryan said Tuesday authorities were analyzing information from radar intelligence to track Fossett.
There has been no sound detected from the plane's emergency locator radio beacon, which goes off if there is a hard impact.
In 2005, Fossett piloted the first nonstop, solo flight around the world without refueling.
Virgin Atlantic sponsored the plane, the GlobalFlyer, which Fossett used a year later to break the world's flight distance record, traveling almost 26,000 miles in 76 hours and 43 minutes from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Bournemouth, England.
He made an emergency landing during that flight after electricity on the aircraft failed over Shannon, Ireland. His goal had been to land at Kent International Airport in Manston, England. Watch a look back at Fossett's myriad records and adventures
In 2002, he achieved the first solo balloon flight around the world, traveling 20,626 miles in 14 days. He's credited with 115 world records or world firsts, and holds official world records in five sports, according to his Web site.
In a interview with CNN last year, Fossett said his favorite record-breaking feat was the 2002 solo balloon flight.
"We had to really upgrade the technical capability of balloons, and the flight was much more difficult than I'd ever imagined it would be. I tried six times over the course of six years before succeeding," he said.
Asked how long he'll keep going, Fossett answered, "I imagine that when I'm 80 years old and sitting in a wheelchair that I might do something like take a remote control airplane and try and fly it around the world. I plan to be setting and breaking records indefinitely."
Fossett was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and grew up in California, where he attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in economics in 1966.
After earning an MBA at Washington University in St. Louis, he became a commodities broker and launched in 1980 the Chicago-based securities company Lakota Trading, the income from which he used to fund his adventures.
Dernière édition par le Mer 5 Sep 2007 - 20:35, édité 1 fois
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Apolloman a écrit:retrouvé quand ça, où ca?? :shock:
Pas de detail, il a été retroubé blessé, aucune nouvelle de son ami.
il y'a un peu plus d'1/2 heure, d'apres cnn.
c'est tout pour l'instant
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ni TF1 ni France2 en parle!!!
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Astrosmith a écrit:ni TF1 ni France2 en parle!!!
je sais, j'ai regardé un peu partout, cnn en principe, c'est generalement assez serieux, sauf si c'est une fausse nouvelle.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/fossett.missing/index.html
Dernière édition par le Mer 5 Sep 2007 - 20:19, édité 1 fois
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Heu la nouvelle que tu as copié ne dit pas qu'il a été retrouvé :shock:zx a écrit:Apolloman a écrit:retrouvé quand ça, où ca?? :shock:
Pas de detail, il a été retroubé blessé, aucune nouvelle de son ami.
il y'a un peu plus d'1/2 heure, d'apres cnn.
c'est tout pour l'instant
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J ais bien peur Zx que tu nous ais fait une fausse joie.
Mais rien n est fini...
Mais rien n est fini...
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[quote="Astrosmith"]J ais bien peur Zx que tu nous ais fait une fausse joie.
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Toutes mes excuses, j'ai mal traduit le titre.
j'avais traduit steve fosset blessé. Mais après avoir relu, j'ai compris qu'on craignait que steve fosset soit blessé.
c'est effectivement pas la meme chose, j'en suis sincerement desolé
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Mais rien n est fini...[/quote
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Toutes mes excuses, j'ai mal traduit le titre.
j'avais traduit steve fosset blessé. Mais après avoir relu, j'ai compris qu'on craignait que steve fosset soit blessé.
c'est effectivement pas la meme chose, j'en suis sincerement desolé
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A l'instant reportage en direct sur france 2
et l'envoyée spéciale de la chaine confirme nos craintes toujours aucunes nouvelles meme si les experts estiment que non blessé il pourrait tenir 1 semaine le temps nécessaire aux avions pour cadrier toute la zone...
et l'envoyée spéciale de la chaine confirme nos craintes toujours aucunes nouvelles meme si les experts estiment que non blessé il pourrait tenir 1 semaine le temps nécessaire aux avions pour cadrier toute la zone...
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amine a écrit:Gaétan a écrit:A mon avis (cela n'engage que moi), il doit être mort à l'heure qu'il est...
Je préfere pas y penser :( :(
Ca serait con qu'il meurt comme ça... (scuser le mot "con", mais c'est le seul que j'ai trouvé...)
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Gaétan a écrit:amine a écrit:Gaétan a écrit:A mon avis (cela n'engage que moi), il doit être mort à l'heure qu'il est...
Je préfere pas y penser :( :(
Ca serait con qu'il meurt comme ça... (scuser le mot "con", mais c'est le seul que j'ai trouvé...)
amicalement , gaétan
Il y avait aussi: Ca serait bête... :P ;)
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Je préfere pas y penser :( :(
Ca serait con qu'il meurt comme ça... (scuser le mot "con", mais c'est le seul que j'ai trouvé...)
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Il y avait aussi: Ca serait bête... :P ;)
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Le Nevada est un désert immense et très hostile...
Les chances s'amenuisent très rapidement de voir un jour l'aventurier vivant...
Finalement les activités risqués ne sont pas celles que l'on pense...
Et je repense de nouveau à l'accident de Crossfield...
:(
Les chances s'amenuisent très rapidement de voir un jour l'aventurier vivant...
Finalement les activités risqués ne sont pas celles que l'on pense...
Et je repense de nouveau à l'accident de Crossfield...
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C'est vrai que finalement, il a fait le tour du monde en ballon, en avion en solo et d'autres péripéties toutes aussi risquées l'une que l'autre... Finalement, il y a un risque pour qu'il aie disparu dans un banal accident d'avion à quelques km du lieu de départ.
Un peu comme un pilote de formule 1 qui se fait renverser en traversant un passage pour piétons...
Un peu comme un pilote de formule 1 qui se fait renverser en traversant un passage pour piétons...
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