US federal investigators say they have found body parts amid the wreckage of a missing adventurer's airplane in the mountains of eastern California.
The National Transportation Safety Board said today that searchers found enough at the crash site of Steve Fossett's plane to provide coroners with DNA.
National Transportation Safety Board acting Chairman Mark Rosenker won't say exactly what searchers found.
But he says it was not surprising how little they uncovered, considering how long it had been since the crash.
Steve’s widow Peggy Fossett said in a statement, the discovery of Fossett's single-engine plane overnight would help her find closure, after her husband was declared legally dead earlier this year.
"The uncertainty surrounding my husband's death over this past year has created a very difficult situation for me," Peggy Fossett said.
"I hope now to be able to bring to closure a very painful chapter in my life. I prefer to think about Steve's life rather than his death and celebrate his many extraordinary accomplishments."
Fossett was 63 when he vanished a little more than a year ago.