Photo: Steve Fossett's Plane Found in Bear Country

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Wreckage from a plane belonging to Steve Fossett is seen near Mammoth Lakes in a handout photo released by California's Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue team.

Searchers found the wreckage of Fossett's plane in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains on October 1, 2008—just over a year after the millionaire adventurer vanished during a solo flight.

Photographs courtesy AP Photo/Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue

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