After more than a week, survival experts are now saying the odds of finding Steve Fossett are slim. I personally find it frustrating and hard to believe that a dozen airplanes have not been able to at least locate the plane wreckage. But, according to an ABC news story, hundreds of small airplanes are disappeared in Nevada's Sierra Mountains, without being found.

Fossett was wearing some sort of tracking device on his wrist. I also know that he is trained in outdoor and wilderness techinques. I still believe it's possible, he could be alive.

"Every day that we start out, we all feel that this is going to be the day we locate Mr. Fossett," said Chuck Allen of the Nevada Highway Patrol.

Some survival experts believe Fossett has already died.

"At this point, you'd be lucky to find him alive," Lee Bergthold, director of the Palmdale, Calif.-based Center for Wilderness Studies and a former Marine Corps survival instructor, told the Associated Press.

On a typical day this week, according to the Civil Air Patrol, there were 21 aircraft out searching from patrol wings in Nevada, California, Utah and Colorado. Another 13 private planes were used by volunteers, operating from the Flying M Ranch in Lyon County, Nev., from which Fossett was flying on Labor Day.

Internet users have also pitched in, volunteering to peer at newly released satellite images of the area.

The search has focused on a circular area stretching 50 miles in every direction from the Flying M, which is owned by hotel heir Barron Hilton. Officials say that's just a matter of logic: The majority of airplane accidents happen close to takeoff or attempted landing.

But if Fossett's plane went down there, it has not yet been spotted.