The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Vannes, France, page 1, on August 20, 1954.
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SAINT-BRIEUC. -- Vacationers on holiday in the village of Saint-Mathun [sic], near Pléneuf (Côtes-du-Nord), reported to the local gendarmerie that they had seen, 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 security system was immediately set in motion, and searches were carried out during the evening by the Pléneuf and Saint-Brieuc gendarmeries, while the maritime authorities dispatched the region’s lifeboats to the scene.
No evidence was found to confirm that it was indeed an aviation accident. The various airfields in the region and in Paris, as well as the western aero clubs, reported no missing aircraft.
The investigators do not conceal their skepticism.
