Steve Fossett - Dead or Alive?

Question

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080728/twl-did-adventurer-fake-his-death-3fd0ae9.html

Has Steve deliberately disappeared (25 million insurance money) or what happened to him?

Answer 1

ALIVE !!

Living in a hotel in Seaton Careow    County Durham

Answer 2

Definately alive he is working as a pilot for B.A.

Answer 3

Well, it's certainly possible. And until there is evidence one way or the other, nothing definitive can be stated. Two points argue that the likelihood he is dead though:

1.  There doesn't seem to be any reason he would want to disappear, he was already rich and famous. Faking your death  is an act of desperation in the face of jail time or financial ruin, he does not appear to have been in risk of either. Getting away with faking your own death is pretty darn hard if you're a nationally recognized figure.

2.  Despite the assertions in the article, planes disappear all the time and are never found, or are found decades later. About a dozen small planes in the USA disappear every year, and he was lost in a really rugged area here a plane could crash under trees and not be stumbled upon for decades. An airliner lost in the forties was found in the nineties, less than ten miles from downtown Vancouver. The world is a big place.

So I would argue that the preponderance of the evidence, such as there is, says that he's dead.

Answer 4

I think he's dead. He was rich enough, and anybody who was able to survive this long in the wilderness would also be able to find their way to civilization.

Answer 5

stranded on mars.

Answer 6

ALIVE!

Answer 7

I'm not sure

Answer 8

I still say he was abducted.

Answer 9

theres no proof of death

theres no proof of survival