[1] He was killed in an airplane crash in 1947 when the small amphibious plane bringing him, the prefect Robert Vignon [fr] and the director of printing Monsieur Marsau crashed into the Sinnamary en route to Saint-Laurent.
The pilot and the other two passengers were able to swim to safety and reach the palétuviers (mangroves) on the river bank, but Jadfard drowned.
[2] As with the death of Jean Galmot [fr] in 1928 tension was raised in the population but the funeral was conducted with great dignity.
[3] A biography by the French Guianan politician Georges Othily: René Jadfard ou l'éclair d'une vie was published by Éditions caribéennes in 1989.
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