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Hope fading for Fossett

New York: Search goes on two weeks after disappearance. Volunteers fly over desert and scan internet images. Doug Taggart was determined to make the most of his last day of flying on Friday. He was up in the air by 6.30 a.m. and would not be back home until 7 p.m. That would give him up to seven hours solid searching for the man whom he had met once at a hot-air balloon festival in Albuquerque and for whom he had the “greatest admiration.” That man is Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer who has been missing for 12 days in the wilderness of Nevada. The search is growing desperate. “I don’t think there’s a whole lot of hope,” said Will Hasley, who helped Mr. Fossett write his autobiography. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2007

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