Welcome to our new members, Basha O’Reilly FN’09, CuChullaine O’Reilly FN’09, Curt J. Westergard MN’09 and Jonah N. Choiniere SM’09.

Our April presentation was by Robert Hyman LF’93 and Lew Toulmin MN’04 on “The Search for Steve Fossett.” They revealed details never made public before, including their team’s contribution to closing the case. A member of their expedition team, alerted to the fact that the Fossett plane fuselage had been found on a mountainside by a hiker, went up to the area and a half mile from the fuselage found a tennis shoe and animal den. He relayed this information and GPS coordinates to authorities which searched that area and found the bones that were proven by DNA testing to be Fossett’s. Toulmin and Hyman also noted that members of the Fossett Expedition later founded a private voluntary group called the Missing Aircraft Search Team (MAST), which recently achieved its first organizational success by finding a Cessna which went missing near Sedona, Arizona in 2006, see www.n2700q.com …

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