Search for Amundsen ended
No result in the search for Norway’s missing explorer Roald Amundsen’s aircraft.
The team searching for Amundsen’s aircraft Latham 47 in the area northwest of the Bear Island in the Barents Sea ended the search before the weekend without any results, writes the newspaper Nordlys.
Over the last 10 days the Norwegian naval vessel KNM Tyr has searched the seabed near the Bear Island in a bid to track down the engine of Amundsen’s flying boat, Latham 47. KNM Tyr carries a mini-sub. Also the coastguard vessel KV Harstad assisted in the search.
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.
