Record Breakers Goes Off Record

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Albert Scott Crossfield or popularly known as Scott Crossfield was an American Naval Officer and test pilot. On 20 November 1953, he became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound as he piloted the Skyrocket to a speed of 1,291 mph (2,078 km/h, Mach2.005). On 19 April 2006, a Cessna 210 Centurion piloted by Crossfield was reported missing while flying from Prattville, Alabama toward Manassas, Virginia.[2]On 20 April authorities confirmed his body was found in the wreckage of his plane in a remote area of Gordon County, Georgia. There were severe thunderstorms in the area when air traffic monitors lost radio and radar contact with Crossfield’s plane.

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Steve Fossett  was born James Stephen Fossett and held 116 records in 5 different sports of which 60 still stand as of June 2007. He was an American businessman, aviator, sailor and adventurer. Having the luxury his business afforded him, he broke records on his own pocket among which made him popular, the first solo, non stop flight around the world in a balloon, the first solo non stop unrefueled flight around the world aboard a jet aircraft, the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer in 2005 and his last, the longest flight by any aircraft in history on the same aircraft in 2006. On 03 September 2007, Fossett was reported missing when the Bellanca Super Decathlon he was flying never returned after taking off at Flying M Ranch near Yerington, Nevada.  Despite a month of search employed by the Civil Air Patrol and the whole aviation community, he was never found until 29 September 2008 when a hiker found his identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Days later the crash site was found and on 03 November 2008, tests conducted on two bones recovered distance away from the site of the crash confirmed a match to fossett’s DNA thereby confirming his death.