Officials at Jersey Airport immediately alerted the Prefecture Maritime in Cherbourg to say contact had been lost with the Beech Baron, and a major search and rescue operation was launched.
A Navy helicopter was scrambled, followed by a French customs helicopter based in Le Havre, a navy public patrol boat from Cherbourg and a police patrol boat.
A French customs helicopter based at Havre, a Navy public patrol service based in Cherbourg and a police patrol were also diverted to help find the missing aircraft.
A third person was recovered by the Navy public patrol service and also returned to Cherbourg, where he was met by paramedics working with the fire service and also taken to hospital.
After being retired from
Cherbourg with the withdrawal of Cunard's Queen Elizabeth (I) in 1967, Nomadic became a restaurant on the Seine, in central Paris, and finally returned to
Cherbourg, saved by a French government temporary preservation order.
The town of
Cherbourg is laid out in the readers' minds--from the first scenes of Germans bombing the beach at the time of the British troops retreating in 1940 to the liberation of the town on D-Day.
Entwined naked in bed, the pair chirp of their passion (Ledoyen's singing is dubbed, as was Catherine Deneuve's in Cherbourg).
Where Cherbourg cushioned its lovers in a stylized blowout of overripe color, Jeanne is more earthbound and curiously more nationalistic, favoring the reds, whites, and blues of the French flag.