CLOSURE

An Aviator’s Final Flight

By Jesse Ellison | NEWSWEEK
Published Oct 4, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Oct 13, 2008

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  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/08/2008 9:48:14 PM

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  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/08/2008 6:41:02 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?



    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time
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  • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 10/07/2008 1:47:14 PM

    Hey okesima @ 10/06/2008 3:10:56 PM, you moron. This plan was initiated and pushed by BOTH sides in the House & Senate. The administration had very little to do with it. Learn a thing or two before you yell "IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!"

  • Posted By: okesima @ 10/06/2008 3:10:56 PM

    hundreds of millions of people around the world are living on less than one dollar per day,while the US govt is planning a $700 billion dollars bailout of wall street investment firms ,who are victims of their own get-rich quick schemes.how insensitive can this adminstration get!Okey Mbah

  • Posted By: durrs @ 10/06/2008 9:55:35 AM

    The NTSB report will give possible reasons but there will never be full closure for his family and friends. At best they will have theories but with so little evidence, there simply will not be a definitive reason. You may ask how I know or tell me I am wrong but you should not doubt me. I lost my only brother to a private plane crash in April, 2004. The NTSB investigation lasted a little more than a year and the final reported cited FAA controller error as the air traffic controller directed him into a level 5 thunderstorm. I take solice and pride in the fact that he was an attorney and judge in his professional life but I take more solice in the fact that he had been a pilot for almost 50 years when he died at 66 years of age. Further, he left this world doing exactly what he loved and as he often said, "when I finally go I will have had the ride of my life." Little did we know it would end this way but it was exactly the way he would have wanted. I suggest you go look at the WWII era poem "High Flight" which says it all.

    • Posted By: mediawatch50 @ 10/06/2008 12:26:59 PM

      I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. At this time, Fossett's accident does not look to be weather related, except that the air temperature in the mountains was unusually high that day, which would have affected this airplane's ability to climb or aggressively maneuver. I am trained in this sort of investigation and while it is certainly too early to state the cause of this mishap, my experience and the immediately available facts point to a "blind canyon" crash, which has occurred many times when pilots go sightseeing high in the mountains on a nice day. Fossett was flying VFR and was not in contact with ATC on this flight. It seems likely that the NTSB investigators will find that the engine was operating at max power and that the aircraft was in a steep right turn at the moment of impact, indicating that Fossett was trying to manuever out of the valley in a manner which exceeded the capability of the machine at that density altitude. Another possibility is that he became incapacitated due to a medical event, in which case the airplane will show no signs of an avoidance maneuver prior to impact. You are correct that a "definite" cause will probably never be released in this case, only a probable cause.

  • Posted By: durrs @ 10/06/2008 12:26:07 PM

    Thank you FLYHI008. I appreciate knowing I have something in common with others. It is definitely not what I would wish on anyone else. Every time another plane crashes, I get that sick feeling. But I really do believe they would all like to be remembered for having done what they loved - no matter the outcome. I just think some people are too ignorant to realize it.

  • Posted By: film915 @ 10/06/2008 10:39:12 AM

    He died doing what he loved? Really? He loved plowing airplanes into the sides of mountains? How strange...

    • Posted By: durrs @ 10/06/2008 12:03:35 PM

      You are an ignorant fool. I am not sure if you are responding about Steve Fossett or my comments about my brother. They shared a lot of a common hobbies (piloting, having money to live out their dreams, having exceptional families, etc.). I am quite sure that flying was as big a love in Fossett's life as in my brother's. Fossett and my brother, however, will join a group of people who are fortunate enough to have lived life to its fullest and gone out doing exactly what they loved - soaring into the skies and living their dreams. You, on the other hand, will probably live your life trudging along as a mediocre human and die a less than happy death. Pity for you is all I can muster. I refuse to allow you to tarnish others!

  • Posted By: FLYHI008 @ 10/06/2008 12:01:51 PM

    Message to Durrs - Lost three family members almost the same way over Nevada - NTSB report (about 18 months later) determined the controller incorrectly requested my uncle fly to 10K feet to avoid a forming thunderhead - Wings iced up and they crashed under a full power dive trying to recover - Looked very much like Fossetts wreckage. Good bless to your family and just ignore film915.

  • Posted By: FLYHI008 @ 10/06/2008 11:58:52 AM

    Message to Durrs - Lost two uncles and an aunt to almost the same situation (over Nevada) - the controllers ordered my uncle to climb (to avoid a fast forming thunderhead) only to have his wings ice up. The wreckage was very much like Fossetts with not much left.

  • Posted By: ex_ring @ 10/06/2008 11:16:38 AM

    Yes, he loved flying and he died doing it.
    You are showing your insensative ignorance with such a comment "He loved plowing airplanes into the sides of mountains? " Surely you can be more respectful.

    The hiker calling his lawter and a film crew first.....What a loser!

  • Posted By: mediawatch50 @ 10/06/2008 9:11:55 AM

    The crash site is located on one side of a dead-end valley. Fossett was flying a plane that could not perform very well at that altitude. The obvious conclusion is that he was trying to turn around and didn't make it. Human error happens, even to experienced pilots. The NTSB will be able to verify the condition of the aircraft at the moment of impact, and we will know if this is what happened. RIP, Steve.

  • Posted By: thanson1975 @ 10/06/2008 8:50:09 AM

    This is it? Really? Could your reporter or even a graphic artist compile some type of graphic or time line flash presentation using PowerPoint or something that is worth clicking on this link?

  • Posted By: Dalene @ 10/06/2008 3:03:31 AM

    The Reno Gazette reportered that the charming hiker who found the remains raced down the mountain to call his lawyer and returned with a film crew before reporting it.

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