MAMMOTH LAKES (California), Oct 3: Thirteen months after thrill-seeker Steve Fossett disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine aeroplane: it slammed into a mountain. “It was a hard-impact crash, and he would’ve died instantly,” said emergency management coordinator for Lyon County, who helped in the search.

The debris littered an area longer than a football field and nearly as wide of a Sierra Nevada mountainside some 10,000 feet above sea level.—AP