Early accounts erroneously reported that the plane had fallen into the Mediterranean, roughly 45 miles from Cartagena "French Plane Falls in Sea; Fear 80 Dead", Chicago Tribune, October 3, 1964, p2 and the error would be repeated in reference books, including one account that "Although the crash area was searched by Spanish, French, British and Italian ships, neither survivors nor even wreckage of the doomed plane was ever discovered."