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Steve
Magellan, world-famous adventurer, has been missing for two days. The man who
soared around the world by himself in a balloon took off in a single-engine
airplane from a private airport in Nevada. He left at noon for a three-hour
flight. The weather was perfect. There were no storms in the area. He took no
emergency provisions. Presumably, he considered his flight to be little
different from a trip to the market for a quart of milk.
He didn’t
file a flight plan, so exactly where he went is unknown. Searchers are combing a
200 by 200 mile area by air. The terrain is high desert, with lots of ravines.
“It would be very easy for a small plane like that to remain undetected for
months,” said an officer from the Civil Air Patrol. The plane, like most small
planes, did not have a “black box,” which sends out radio signals in event of a
crash. A friend of Magellan’s said that he usually wears a watch that can send
radio signals. But no signals were coming from that watch, if he was in fact
wearing it.
Magellan
had a knack for walking away uninjured from accidents, so friends and relatives
did not seem to be overly alarmed. His younger sister said that it wouldn’t
surprise her if he came strolling out of the desert in a day or two. Magellan
made his fortune in real estate when he was young, and has devoted the rest of
his life to pursuing world records in ballooning, piloting airplanes, and
driving fast cars. The purpose of his afternoon flight was to find a suitable
area to try to set a new land speed record for automobiles.
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