Steve Fawcett Plane Wreckage Found – Pics and video of the plane wreckage positively identified as the Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon that Steve Fawcett was flying when he disappeared in September 2007.
The Steve Fawcett plane wreckage was found 9,500 feet up a mountain peak ouside Mammoth Lakes, California, strewn across an area several hundred yards long with a huge burn spot where the plane made impact.
On Thursday, Madera County Sheriff John Anderson confirmed that wreckage found in the Mammoth Lakes Area is that of Fawcett’s missing single-engine Bellanca plane.
Fawcett disappeared last September after flying an experimental plane. A judge declared him legally dead in February.
Anderson says the aircraft appears to have crashed head-on into the side of a mountain.”I have seen photographs; they took some photographs last night of the crash site. It was so severe that I doubt if someone would have walked away,” Anderson said.
Most of the fuselage disintegrated on impact, and the engine was found several hundred feet away.
Earlier in the week a hiker found pilot ID cards with Fawcett’s name and $1,005 in cash.
While the plane’s wreckage was found, no human remains have been found. About 50 searchers, along with five K-9 teams are expected to continue searching the area on Thursday.
And that’s the latest news on the Steve Fawcett plane wreckage found.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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July 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
yeh right…..he disappears right after inventing that incredible vehicle that can travel the furthest depths of the sea? He’s probably living it up in the hollow earth
February 4th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Steve Fawcett spirit lives among us to protect the flyers