Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London, via Delhi, Beirut, and Geneva. On the morning of 24 January 1966 at 8:02 CET, on approach to Geneva, the Boeing 7
Wreckage of the aircraft in 2023
VT-DMN, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in 1965
English text of the monument at refuge du Nid d'Aigle [fr] in Mont-Blanc Massif
Newspaper discovered on June 4, 2020, on the Bossons Glacier. It was inside a diplomatic suitcase along with other newspapers and official mail.
Mont Blanc is a mountain in the Alps, rising 4,807.3 m above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the second-most
Air India Flight 101
…Beirut, and Geneva. On the morning of 24 January 1966 at 8:02 CET, on approach to Geneva, the Boeing 707 operating the flight accidentally crashed into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board. Among the victims was Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the founder and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of…
Mont Blanc as seen from the Chécrouit Lake, Italy
View of the southern side of Mont Blanc (big summit on the left) from Aiguille Rouge