MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. -- Federal investigators say they have found body parts amid the wreckage of a missing adventurer's airplane in the mountains of eastern California.

Carl de Souza

US adventurer Steve Fossett is pictured here in 2005. The mangled wreckage of the plane being flown by adventurer Fossett when he disappeared has been found, police said Thursday, but there was no sign of the millionaire's body.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday 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.

Fossett was 63 when he vanished a little more than a year ago.

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