Steve Fossett

You can stand right next to it and get your picture with it.

Steve Fossett also had a similar, I guess, ironic demise.

He had a simple aircraft crash in the, in the California desert, a single-engine airplane, near a place called Devil's Postpile Monument.

But before the accident, he survived a balloon crash into the Pacific's shark-infested waters near Hawaii.

The pilots involved in these crashes were either discovered later, confirmed to have passed away, or disappeared without a trace.

Steve Fossett, a well-known explorer and aviator, took off in a Super Decathlon from a small Nevada airstrip on November 3rd, 2007, but seemingly disappeared without a trace.

Despite extensive search and rescue operations that lasted for weeks and cost approximately $700,000, Fossett was not found until more than a year later.

A hiker stumbled upon his scattered ID cards along a trail.

A few days later, the crash site was discovered approximately 65 miles from where the aviator initially took off.

Two bones were later recovered a half mile from the crash site, which were found to belong to Steve Fossett.

Numerous theories have been suggested to clarify the disappearances that occurred in the region.

These theories vary from human mistakes and mechanical failures to inexplicable happenings like magnetic abnormalities, unidentified flying objects, and even the possibility of government concealment.

Soaring pilots have used wave lift to set altitude records that most powered aircraft cannot reach without pressurization.

The current world record for glider altitude stands at just over seventy-six thousand feet, set in two thousand and six by Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson flying a pressurized sailplane called Perlan One over the Andes in Argentina.

Seventy-six thousand feet in a glider.

That is above the cruising altitude of a U2 spy plane.