Oct 31, 2008, 4:22 GMT
San Francisco - Search teams have found bones and a driver's license with Steve Fossett's name near the site where the millionaire's crashed plane was discovered in eastern California, officials said Thursday.
Found were a pair of tennis shoes, credit cards and Fossett's Illinois state driver's license as well as bones, which are believed to be human and were sent for DNA testing, Madera County Sheriff John Anderson told a press conference.
Adventurer Fossett, 63, vanished on a solo flight from a Nevada ranch on September 3, 2007. He vanished as he was apparently trying to find a site to attempt an assault on the world land speed record.
Searchers discovered the wreckage in early October in a rugged wooded area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains days after hikers discovered ID cards, clothes and some 1,000 dollars in cash that appeared to belong to Fossett.
A billionaire financial trader, he set 116 records in sailboats, powered aircraft, balloons, airships and gliders.
He also swam the English Channel, drove in the 24 Hours of Le Mans car race, competed in Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon, sailed solo across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, climbed Argentina's 23,000-foot Aconcagua peak and competed in Alaska's Iditarod Trail sled dog race.
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