23 May 1914

The notable English aviator Gustav Hamel disappeared over the English Channel on 23 May 1914 while returning from Villacoublay on a new Morane-Saulnier monoplane he had just collected. In July, the crew of a fishing vessel found a body in the Channel off Boulogne. Although they did not retrieve the body, their description of the corpse provided strong circumstantial evidence that the body was Hamel's.