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