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'{{ArticleHistory | action1 = GAN | action1date = 12 November 2007 | action1link = Talk:Steve Fossett#GA Review | action1result = listed | action1oldid = 171147348 | currentstatus = GA | topic = Socsci }} {{werdnabot|type=time|age=91|showheader=no}} {{WikiProjectBannerShell|1= {{WPBiography|living=no|class=GA|priority=|listas=Fossett, Steve }} {{WPAVIATION|class=GA|importance=High|Biography=yes}} {{WikiProject Missouri|class=GA}} {{ScoutingWikiProject|class=GA|importance=High |past-biography=[[June]] [[2008]]}} {{WikiProjectWUSTLpeople|class=GA}} }} ==Too much unnecessary detail?== In the section about the finding of the wreckage and his body parts? This whole section *''This fact does not explain how the ends of the aerobatic harness he was wearing could have come free from the 5-point cam-lock, considering that their release requires the cam-lock knob be twisted a quarter-turn. Manipulating the cam-lock could not have been accomplished by someone other than Fossett. According to interviews by the Discovery Channel (who provided a camera crew the day after his FAA ID and $1005 were found by a hiker) the one fact that disputes the official findings was the location of hardware that had been part of the pilot's harness. Pilots who knew him were interviewed by the Discovery Channel for a January 2009 documentary on the incident in which they expressed certainty that the harness could have been released by any animal that may have moved his body. The reason for their opinion pertains to the mechanism (twisting) required to release the harness and the fact that no other hardware was attached. However, there is no evidence to suggest that this harness was in use or being worn at the time of the crash.'' seems over the top. Besides - if you have seen the footage of the wreckage, heavily mangled and crumpled, and no large pieces surviving, it is not beyond belief that the force of the crash could easily have destroyed the harness. And don't get me talking about the programme I watched last night (''The Sierra Nevada Triangle'', on [[Channel 4]]) in which a Mammoth Lakes Park Ranger insisted that bears wouldn't have moved his body/body parts and that the explanation for his remains being found so far from the crash site was that he had crawled up there. Puh-lease! And this ranger said he had seen the crash wreckage. There was '''no''' way anyone would survive a crash that did that to the plane. ~~~~~~~~'