Satellite enlisted in search for missing journo

by snuffysmith | December 6, 2006 at 08:44 am

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Perhaps it will be technology that will save a technology reporter...but it does not look good. On CNN last night, his wife reported he was only wearing runners, and searchers found a good pair of his pants that were apparently discarded.

A satellite has been redeployed to scan a rugged area on the north-western US coast to help in the search for a missing technology reporter and who was last seen on Saturday.

The satellite - owned by the remote sensing operator GeoEye - will join some 100 rescue workers and four helicopters in the search for James Kim, a 35-year-old father of two.

A GeoEye spokesman told Kim's employer, the online technology publisher CNET, that its Ikonos satellite would pass over the area near the Oregon coast where the search is concentrated at about 5.30am (Sydney time on Thursday).