Help Search For Fossett
Steve Fossett went missing almost 2 weeks ago. Now you can help in the search.
Thousands of concerned web users are poring over recent satellite images of western Nevada in the hope of finding missing adventurer Steve Fossett, and an aviation website claims to have found a lead.
With the search for the 63-year-old soon to enter its second week, his friends have set up a page on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk website.
The page contains satellite photographs of the search area, taken after Fossett went missing, which anyone can analyse square by square.
Sections of the images, provided by Google Earth image supplier DigitalGlobe, can be flagged by online users as containing “foreign objects that should be looked at more closely” or “nothing of interest”.
The hope is that someone will come across Fossett’s small white Super Decathlon plane in Nevada’s mountainous terrain and desert wilderness.
The same tool was used as part of a massive online search for Microsoft researcher James Gray in February, who failed to return home from a sailing trip. Gray, also 63, was never found.
Tags: Steve Fossett Search, Google Earth
