In search of the wreck of the "white bird" aircraft Nungesser and Coli mysteriously disappeared in May 1927
Friday 15 May 2009
An expedition is a party in the direction of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, in search of the wreckage of the white bird, the plane of Nungesser and Coli mysteriously disappeared while attempting to rally the United States from of France.
Leaving Paris on 8 May 1927 to join New York nonstop, Charles Nungesser, pilot, and François Coli, navigator, had never reached its destination.
Fifteen days later, another of aviation as the American Charles Linbergh was the successful first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic in the opposite direction.
Many investigators have attempted to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of Nungesser and Coli, some arguing that the white bird was damaged in the English Channel, others in Maine or Newfoundland.
But Secretary of State for Overseas, Yves Jégo, which supports the dispatch of Decré Bernard, founder of the Tour de France à la voile, the hypothesis of an accident off St. Pierre et-Miquelon "seems most relevant," based on "a long and thorough investigation."
"The likely crash area is located a few miles off the black cap in the south of the island of St. Pierre where the aviation runway of the archipelago" of the french North Atlantic, according Mr. Jégo.
The white bird was caught in a violent storm, thunderstorms and fog.
With a budget of 80,000 euros, the expedition is funded half by the State Secretariat for Overseas and half by the Délégation Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC), the Territorial Council of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the mayor of Saint-Pierre and Aigle, private sponsor.
According to a dispatch from Agence France Presse on 14 May 2009