Millionaires Who Disappeared
Thursday, Aug 27, 2020, 9:21 am
#5 Steve Fossett
Businessman Steve Fossettbecame rich through stock market investments. He was heavy into sports and set over 100 world records in flying, ballooning, and sailing. In September 2007, a 63-year-oldFossett disappeared over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California on a solo flight. His disappearanceinstigated the largest and most difficult search for an individual in US history. Neither Fossett nor his plane were found. He was declared legally dead in February 2008. In October 2008, wreckage of Fossett's plane was discovered by a hiker. Bones were also discovered in the wreckage and DNA tests proved the bones belonged to Steve Fossett. It was discovered that Fossett collided head-on with a mountainside and died instantaneously.