The article below was published in the daily newspaper Franc-Tireur, Paris, France, page 5, on August 20, 1954.
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Rennes, August 19 (F.T.). -- The searches carried out yesterday and this morning to find traces of the plane which, according to several holidaymakers, is said to have crashed into the waves off Pléneuf (Côtes-du-Nord), have proved fruitless.
Yet three summer visitors came to the gendarmes to declare that they too had seen a plane nose-dive into the sea. A collective optical illusion?
Several fishing boats from Pléneuf and Erquy combed the sea without noticing the slightest wreckage.
Meanwhile, coming from Rennes, the official plane Iyam flew over the area for an hour within a 10-kilometer square. Although operating at low altitude, it made no observations that could confirm the hypothesis of an accident. No trace of oil was detected on the fairly rough sea.
The searches, however, continue.
