Steve Fossett's Round-the-World Record Smashed by 29-Year-Old Jet

Three Swiss pilots have broken the round-the-world flight record, smashing Steve Fossett's four-year-record by almost ten hours, reports . The flight touched down yesterday in Geneva, 57 hours and 54 minutes after taking off, and the 23,000-mile journey included ten pit stops of 15 to 20 minutes, and 57 hours and 54 minutes. Chief pilot Riccardo Mortara, claimed, however, that the trip could have taken five hours less, had it not been for an angry volcano.

The plane, a Rockwell...