Air India Crash Mont Blanc 1966

The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of vor data one of the receivers being out of service.
Air india crash mont blanc 1966. The aircraft had already made two designated stops at delhi and. Dark areas in snow showing plane wreckage. 117 die in air india tragedy up to 117 people have been killed after an air india boeing 707 crashed near the summit of mont blanc in the alps.
The 1966 air india crash is shrouded in mystery not only because global warming has continued to tell its story piece by piece but also because in 1950 air india flight 245 a lockheed l 749a constellation christened malabar princess had crashed at exactly the same spot on mont blanc killing all 48 people on board. Mont blanc camera zooms in to area where the air india boeing 707 plane has crashed. The plane was on a regular bombay to new york flight when the accident happened at around 0800 local time.
Air india flight 101 was a scheduled air india passenger flight from bombay to london that accidentally flew into mont blanc in france on the morning of 24 january 1966.