The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, page 8, on August 19, 1954.
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St-Brieuc, August 18. -- Holidaymakers in the village of St-Mathurin, near Pléneuf (Côtes-du-Nord), reported to the local gendarmerie that they had seen, yesterday evening at 8 p.m., a plane fall into the sea about 4 km off the coast, opposite Val André.
They specified that, after the passage of a plane, they noticed black smoke in the sky, followed by a large flame above the waves.
The safety system was immediately set in motion and searches were carried out in the evening by the gendarmeries of Pléneuf and Saint-Brieuc, while the maritime authority sent the region’s lifeboats to the scene.
No evidence has been found to confirm that it was indeed an aviation accident. The various airfields in the region and in Paris, as well as the Aero-Clubs of the West, have reported no aircraft missing.
