Lost in the wind
Steve Fossett was an enterprising adventurer who had given fate many even-odds chances to take him earlier than this. He opened frontiers and tested boundaries and set records that required a special combination of resources, fortitude, and daring... plus the essential ingredient of luck, which saved his person more than once along the way.
Perhaps he forgot to be lucky that day, or didn't remember fast enough. In a little feather of an airplane swimming slow upstream against the millions of tons of air rushing against it that were accelerated across 8000 miles of ocean and then rushing in a blast across the stony narrow knife edge of a mountain range taller than most and proud in that wind, he missed, ever so slightly, his intended course, and finally paid the price imposed by an unforgiving sky.