Nearly two years after the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett, investigators on Thursday determined that strong winds probably downed his plane.The board's findings are in line with witness testimony revealed in the agency's March report: Fossett's single-engine craft was fighting headwinds.
Fossett took off from the airport of the Flying M Ranch outside Minden, Nevada, on September 3, 2007, for what his wife described as "a Sunday drive," according to the report.
Fossett, a daring adventurer, in 2002 became the first person to circle the globe solo in a balloon, and three years later was the first to fly a plane around the world solo without refueling. He also set world records in round-the-world sailing and cross-country skiing.
Bone fragments recovered at the crash site could not be "definitively identified as human," the report said, but authorities confirmed through DNA tests that skeletal fragments were those of Fossett.
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