A pilot's license and a torn $100 bill belonging to Steve Fossett were among the items found on Monday by a hiker in a rugged part of eastern California.
California authorities have confirmed that the wreckage of a plane they found in the east-central mountains of the state is that of Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer who vanished more than a year ago after embarking on a solo flight.
A plane with the same tail number as that flown by Mr. Fossett was discovered in several pieces strewn across a wide area in the Ansel Adams Wilderness section of Inyo National Forest, about 120 miles south of the Nevada ranch where he departed on Sept. 3, 2007, for what he had said would be a brief trip.
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