Mont Blanc massif, France 45°52′40″N06°52′00″E / 45.87778°N 6.86667°E / 45.87778; 6.86667
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707–437
Aircraft name
Kanchenjunga
Operator
Air India
Registration
VT-DMN
Flight origin
Sahar International Airport, Mumbai, India
1st stopover
Delhi International Airport, New Delhi, India
2nd stopover
Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon
Last stopover
Geneva International Airport, Geneva, Switzerland
Destination
Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom
Passengers
106
Crew
11
Fatalities
117
Survivors
0
Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Mumbai to London, via Delhi, Beirut, and Geneva. On the morning of 24 January 1966 at 8:02 CET, on approach to Geneva, the Boeing 707-437 operating the flight accidentally flew and crashed into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board. Among the victims was Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the founder and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India.
The crash occurred just a few hundred feet away from where an Air India Lockheed 749 Constellation operating as Air India Flight 245 while on a charter flight, had crashed in 1950.[1]
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