Only took 'em a year

Proving yet again that a small plane should not take off without an ELT (or EPIRB or PLB) on board:

Search teams have found the wreckage of the plane piloted by missing adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished more than a year ago, Madera County, Calif. Sheriff John Anderson said Thursday. An aerial search late Wednesday spotted the wreckage in the Inyo National Forest near the town of Mammoth Lakes, Anderson said at a news conference, and searchers confirmed it was Fossett's single-engine Bellanca plane. Anderson said no human remains were found in the wreckage. Teams led by the sheriff's department would continue the search for remains Thursday, while the National Transportation Safety Board was en route to probe the cause of the crash, he said. Most of the fuselage disintegrated on impact, and the engine was found several hundred feet away, Anderson said.

Rico says a few hundred dollars for an ELT, and they might have found the rich-but-dumb sumbitch alive, since he wasn't in the fuselage and they found his documents quite a distance away...