The Fossett Search never ends

Updated on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 11:55 by mavenandmeddler

Last week I got an email alerting me to the air date of the latest in what will certainly be just one more speculative television feature - ‘Lost in the Nevada Triangle’ - about what may or may not have happened to famed aviator Steve Fossett on the Labor Day weekend of 2007.

I thought briefly of letting my readers know, but held back.

I was a part of that story, and have had plenty of bitter first hand experience of just how badly wrong a seemingly innocent ‘interview’ for the ‘truth’ can go. It can turn out to be a career destroyer.

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National Information Officers Association 2008 Conference, Reno, Nevada

Yes, they did indeed take pictures of the presentation about the Steve Fossett search that Trooper Chuck Allen and I did yesterday:

At the official Monday morning opening ceremonies were: NIOA President, Judy Pal, Reno Fire Chaplain Steve Arvin, Nevada First Lady, Dawn Gibbons, Reno Mayor Robert Cashell and Sparks Mayor Gino Martini.

First on the presentation bill was “Where is Steve Fossett?” presented by myself (Lt Col Cynthia S Ryan ) and Trooper Chuck Allen of the Nevada Highway Patrol.

As I told Chuck afterward: “we’re still rock stars” (of PIOs that is)

The Search for Steve Fossett

Well, the two compadres were back in the saddle again today, as Trooper Chuck Allen ( Nevada Highway Patrol Public Information Officer) and I ( the lead Public Information Officer for the Steve Fossett search of Sept. 2007) made the key note presentation at the 2008 National Information Officers Association national conference, held in Sparks, Nevada.

As I told Chuck afterward: ‘we’re still Rock Stars’ But truly, the morning that Trooper Allen walked in to the Command Post to offer me his help was the day I pulled triple 7’s ( it’s a Nevada thing ). I absolutely lucked out getting the best possible PIO help available for a search and media circus of that magnitude.

Needless to say, the presentation went very, very well indeed and we both received congratulations all around. Hopefully, somebody took a picture!