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In 2001, a 24-year-old pilot went down around San Bernardino, CA, in the National Forest. His disappearance spawned "one of the most extensive and high-tech searches in the area's history."
They didn't find his wreckage.
If anyone has ever been there, in and around Big Bear Lake, it's fairly well-populated, unlike the terrain in which Fosset disappeared.
Yet it took seven years to find the wreckage.
It might be 2525 before we find Fosset's wreckage.