Search for Amundsen’s plane started
Norway’s legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen disappeared somewhere in the Barents Sea in 1928. This week, the Norwegian navy started a search for Amundsen’s aircraft.
Roald Amundsen’s aircraft, a Latham 47, vanished somewhere in the Barents Sea on June 18, 1928. Amundsen and the five other crew-members took off from the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø on their way towards the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. The mission was to locate and rescue the crew of Umberto Nobile who disappeared while attempting to fly over the North Pole with an airship in 1928. Over the next 10 days, the navy vessel KNM Tyr will scour the seabed near the Bear Island in a bid to track down the engine of Amundsen’s flying boat. KNM Tyr carries a mini-sub. Also the coastguard vessel KV Harstad will assist the search.
