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Originally posted by Lightningssrs10
This is a wild theory.....any chance you could post any more supporting evidence?
The search for Mr Fossett or his downed plane covers 44,000 sq km (17,000 square miles) of Nevada's wilderness as well as parts of California.
In a bid to help searchers focus their efforts, Google released up-to-date images of Nevada for the search giant's Google Earth software.
Following the release of the images, Amazon created a collaborative search scheme run via its Mechanical Turk system.
The Mechanical Turk pays people to perform tasks that computers would struggle to complete, such as translating text or evaluating images.
Anyone taking part in the Mechanical Turk scheme downloads the updated images and an associated program that shows them recent images that they can flag if any appear to be candidates for a crash site.
The creators of the search scheme said Mr Fossett's plane would appear as an object about "21 pixels long and 30 pixels in wingspan".
The search in Nevada by the Civil Air Patrol and many private pilots has discovered six previously unknown wrecks - some of which were decades old.
The search for Fossett across a 17,000-square-mile swath of the Sierra Nevada has revealed the wreckage of eight other small planes that had never, until now, been discovered.
And each of those crash sites holds clues to the fates of other fliers who went missing in what is starting to look like the Bermuda Triangle of the western United States.