the surface twice without confirming anything. more than one month of searching the surface this the surrounding area hasn t turned up a single piece of plane debris. you can see why the families aren t convinced the search is in the right place. randi kaye reports if the search is off target it wouldn t be the first time. reporter: it is september, 2007. steve fossett takes off in nevada heading south in a single-engine airplane. he promises to be back for lunch but that s the last anyone sees of him in the best way to character ease it is looking for a needle in a haystack. 10,000 square miles. reporter: within hours the desperate search for the famed aviator is underway. the terrain is rugged, the wilderness between western nevada and eastern california is vast. did that plane have the equivalent of a black box in it? sglit has an elt locater system that can be picked up by