MINDEN, Nevada (AP) -- Searchers looking for Steve Fossett have come across six uncharted plane crashes, but none of the wrecks sheds light on what may have happened to the multimillionaire adventurer.
Steve Fossett and his wife, Peggy, celebrate his record for nonstop airplane flight distance in February 2006. Hopes that a wrecked plane spotted Friday on the side of a hill might be Fossett's were dashed quickly when ground crews learned the plane last was registered more than three decades ago.
As the search for Fossett stretched into its fifth full day Saturday, weary rescuers were no closer to understanding where he was flying or where his small plane might have gone down. Searchers tried to glean any positive news they could from the old crashes they discovered from an otherwise discouraging week.
"This does give us hope. We are finding a lot of stuff we didn't know was there," Civil Air Patrol Maj. Cynthia Ryan said. Video Watch results from the fifth day of the search »
Ryan said authorities had received hundreds of tips from the public since Fossett was reported missing Monday after taking off from a private airstrip owned by hotel mogul Barron Hilton 80 miles southeast of Reno, Nevada.
Still, it's not much to go on for rescuers trying to search an area the size of Massachusetts that is crisscrossed with jagged mountain ranges, gullies and steep canyons
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