The Navy of Norway on Monday, February 23, announced the launch of the expedition to find the wreckage of the plane of Norwegian polar explorer Amundsen Rualya, reported AFP. Start the expedition was appointed in August 2009.
At the disposal of researchers will be provided to ship the Navy, Coast Guard ship, echo sounding devices the remote controlled device to dive under the ice. The expedition will be working in the Barents Sea to the north-west of Bear Island where the plane crashed Amundsen. Area searches will be 36 nautical miles (about 57 kilometers). Place a future expedition was selected staff Norwegian Aviation Museum, which tried to find the wreckage of the plane Amundsen five years ago. Then the expedition was aborted due to bad weather conditions.
Last expedition Rualya Amundsen took place in 1928. Amundsen and another five went in search of polar Arctic explorer Umberto Nobile, whose airship crashed on the Barents Sea. July 18, 1928 radio aircraft Latham-47, which flew Amundsen and his satellites, reported that heavy fog around the car and asked the radio bearing. After this connection was interrupted. After a month and a half was found float "Latham-47", but other remnants of the expedition have been found. Nobile and his companions were safely rescued five days after the disappearance of the Amundsen.
Rual Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole. It happened Dec. 14, 1911.
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