Balloon flight continues<\/p>\n
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (Reuters): U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett
\nheaded across the Indian Ocean yesterday, trying to find an
\naltitude that would carry him neither too far north nor south to
\nreach Australia in his bid to become the first to fly around the
\nworld nonstop in a balloon.<\/p>\n
At midnight EDT (11 p.m. Jakarta time) as he entered the sixth
\nday of his journey, Fossett was 1,287 km southeast of Cape Town
\nat 7,429 meters. He had traversed 10,933 km since taking to the
\nsky over western Argentina last Friday.<\/p>\n
He already has two achievements in his flight jacket -- first
\nto cross the South Atlantic in a balloon, and second-longest
\nmanned balloon flight. The latter he accomplished Tuesday when he
\npassed his own record of flight, 9,337 km, which he had set
\nduring his last around-the-world bid.<\/p>\n
Fossett, a 54-year-old financial markets millionaire, also
\nholds the record for the longest flight -- 16,670 km from the
\nUnited States to India, set during a 1997 try.<\/p>",
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