Unmanned aircraft to be used in search for Roald Amundsen 's plane . The search -- scheduled for later this year -- will focus on a 40 square-mile ( 104 square-kilometer ) area of the Arctic Ocean where researchers believe Amundsen 's plane crashed in 1928 . Amundsen 's plane crashed in Antarctica while he was on a rescue mission to South Pole . The first to reach South Pole ; credited with being first to both poles . Search due to begin later this year .
Unmanned aircraft to be used in search for Roald Amundsen 's plane . Amundsen 's plane crashed in Antarctica while he was on a rescue mission to South Pole . The first to reach South Pole ; credited with being first to both poles . Search due to begin later this year .