BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (AP) _ A 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers fanned out on foot Monday in rugged mountains on the Nevada-California border, hoping to find what search planes ...

HAWTHORNE, Nev. -- A year after the Labor Day 2007 disappearance of famed aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett, a team made up of friends and admirers is searching for some sign of him or his small ...

"It was a hard-impact crash, and he would've died instantly," said Jeff Page, emergency management coordinator for Lyon County, Nev., who assisted in the search. National Transportation Safety Board ...

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif.—More than a year after the mysterious disappearance of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, searchers have found the wreckage of his plane in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains ...

RENO, Nev. - Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who has cheated death time and again in his successful pursuit of aviation records, was missing Tuesday after taking off in a single-engine plane the ...

RENO, Nev. -- Authorities investigating the mysterious disappearance of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett said Thursday they've ruled out some of the more unlikely explanations for why they haven't ...

Steve Fossett was the first man to circumnavigate the world in a hot-air balloon and the first to fly an airplane solo around the globe without refueling. Last September, the 63-year old millionaire ...

A Frenchwoman made it in the 18th century and so did a team who finished their mission on solar plane this year. By The New York Times In reaching Challenger Deep, James Cameron has fulfilled a quest ...

LAS VEGAS – British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson said Monday he had all but given up hope that explorer Steve Fossett would be found alive. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, Branson described his ...