Editing Roald Amundsen (section)

== Disappearance and death ==
[[File:Latham 47 Roald Amundsen 1928.jpg|thumb|Amundsen's [[Latham 47]] flying boat]]
Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. His team included Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot [[René Guilbaud]], and three more Frenchmen. They were seeking missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship {{ship|Airship|Italia||2}} had crashed while returning from the North Pole. Amundsen's French [[Latham 47]] flying boat [[List of aerial disappearances|never returned]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 July 2017|title=The disastrous Latham-47 Polar rescue, from Caudebec-en-Caux|url=https://www.normandythenandnow.com/the-disastrous-latham-47-polar-rescue-from-caudebec-en-caux/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=Normandy Then and Now|language=en-US|archive-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625141357/https://www.normandythenandnow.com/the-disastrous-latham-47-polar-rescue-from-caudebec-en-caux/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Later, a wing-float and bottom gasoline tank from the plane, which had been adapted as a replacement wing-float, were found near the [[Tromsø]] coast. It is assumed that the plane crashed in the [[Barents Sea]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexis S. Troubetzkoy|title=Arctic Obsession: The Lure of the Far North|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ckZJZzRYCp4C&pg=PA232|year=2011|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55488-855-9|page=232|access-date=29 November 2020|archive-date=2 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502030119/https://books.google.com/books?id=ckZJZzRYCp4C&pg=PA232|url-status=live}}</ref> and that Amundsen and his crew were killed in the wreck, or died shortly afterward. The search for Amundsen and team was called off in September 1928 by the Norwegian government, and the bodies were never found.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.antarctica21.com/journal/famous-antarctic-explorers-roald-amundsen/|title=Famous Antarctic Explorers: Roald Amundsen |date=20 October 2017 |access-date=15 April 2024}}</ref>

In 2004 and in late August 2009, the [[Royal Norwegian Navy]] used the [[AUV|unmanned submarine]] ''Hugin 1000'' to search for the wreckage of Amundsen's plane. The searches focused on a {{convert|40|sqmi|adj=on}} area of the sea floor, and were documented by the German production company ContextTV.<ref name="Rincon" /><ref name="searchforamundsen" /> They found nothing from the Amundsen flight.