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It began nearly 70 years ago when a five-year-old called a top-secret emergency line reserved for the U.S. president and four-star generals and asked, "Hello, is this Santa?"
The disappearance of the L'Oiseau Blanc — the White Bird — in 1927 has left historians and aviation enthusiasts stumped. "This is the most important missing airplane in history," says Ric Gillespie, who has been looking for it for more than 40 years.