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  • Norway Searches for Lost Hero (South Pole Conqueror Roald Amundsen)

    02/27/2009 3:58:07 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 397+ views
    Scotsman ^ | 27 February 2009 | Margaret Neighbour
    NORWAY plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen's plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal Norwegian Navy has announced. Amundsen was on board a French Latham 47 flying boat that disappeared in the Barents Sea on 18 June, 1928. The plane was searching for the airship Italia, which crashed while returning from a North Pole expedition led by Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautical engineer. "We want to find the plane and help solve the mystery," said Commander Frode Loeseth of the Norwegian navy. In 1926, Amundsen and a crew that...