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Air India Flight 245 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight that crashed into Mont Blanc, France on the morning of 3 November 1950.
 VT-CQP, the aircraft involved in the accident in 1949 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 November 1950 |
| Summary | Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) in poor weather |
| Site | Mont Blanc |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Lockheed L-749A Constellation |
| Operator | Air India |
| Registration | VT-CQP |
| Flight origin | Sahar International Airport, Bombay, India |
| 1st stopover | Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2nd stopover | Cointrin Airport, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Destination | London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom |
| Passengers | 40 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 48 |
| Survivors | 0 |
The plane operating the flight was a Lockheed L-749A Constellation named Malabar Princess, registered VT-CQP. It was piloted by Captain Alan R. Saint, 34, and co-pilot V. Y. Korgaokar. It was carrying 40 passengers and 8 crew on a Bombay-Cairo-Geneva-London route. While over France, descending towards Geneva Airport, the flight crashed into the French Alps, killing all on board.[1][2][3]
Accident
The airplane hit the face of the Rocher de la Tournette at a height of 4,677 m (15,344 ft), on the French side of Mont Blanc.[2] Stormy weather prevented immediate rescue efforts; debris was located by a Swiss plane on 5 November, and rescue parties reached the site two days later.[2] There were no survivors. The last transmission from the aircraft, received by controllers at Grenoble and Geneva, was "I am vertical with Voiron, at 4700 meters altitude." at 10:43 a.m.
Some mail on board the flight was recovered after the crash and was annotated with "Retardé par suite d'accident aerien" ("delayed due to aviation accident"); further items of mail were found in 1951 and 1952. On 8 June 1978, a patrol of the French mountain police found letters and a sack at the foot of the Bossons Glacier. Recovered were 57 envelopes and 55 letters (without envelopes) and all but eight letters were forwarded to their original addressees.[4] Sixteen years after the crash, Air India Flight 101 crashed in almost exactly the same spot.[5] In September 2013, a climber discovered a cache of jewelry that is believed to have been aboard one of these two flights.[6]
References
- "MALABAR PRINCESS". Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- "The "Malabar Princess" Catastrophe". Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- "Accident description". Aviation Safety. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- Muir, Douglas N. (26 October 1978). "Letters Freed from a Glacier after 28 Years". Stamp Collecting. Vol. 131, no. 10. p. 1051.
- Mendis, Sean (26 July 2004). "Air India: The story of the aircraft". Airwhiners.net. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- Pearson, Michael; Vandoorne, Saskya (26 September 2013). "Mysterious cache of jewels turns up atop French glacier". CNN.
На других языках
[de] Air-India-Flug 245
Auf dem Air-India-Flug 245 von Bombay (heute: Mumbai) nach London mit Zwischenlandungen in Kairo und Genf verunglückte bei einem Flugunfall am 3. November 1950 eine Lockheed L-749 Constellation der Air India nach Bergberührung am Mont-Blanc-Vorgipfel Rocher de la Tournette bei stürmischem Wetter und geringer Sicht.- [en] Air India Flight 245
[fr] Accident du Malabar Princess
L'accident du Malabar Princess, un Lockheed Constellation de la compagnie Air India, a lieu le 3 novembre 1950 dans le massif du Mont-Blanc, en France. Les 48 passagers et membres d'équipage sont tués.[it] Volo Air India 245
Il volo Air India 245 era un collegamento civile internazionale di Air India operato dal Lockheed L-749 Constellation denominato Malabar Princess proveniente da Bombay e diretto a Londra e di cui si persero le tracce il 3 novembre 1950 mentre sorvolava il versante francese del Monte Bianco.[2] Il relitto del velivolo fu trovato due giorni dopo, schiantato contro un picco roccioso durante l'avvicinamento all'aeroporto di Ginevra mentre percorreva la seconda tratta del volo Bombay-Il Cairo-Ginevra-Londra. Tutte le 48 persone a bordo rimasero uccise nell'incidente aereo, che fu il più grave occorso in Francia fino a quel tempo e il terzo più grave a coinvolgere un Lockheed Constellation.[1][ru] Катастрофа L-749 на Монблане
Катастрофа L-749 на Монблане — авиационная катастрофа, произошедшая в пятницу 3 ноября 1950 года на горе Монблан во французских Альпах. Самолёт Lockheed L-749A Constellationruen индийской авиакомпании Air-India выполнял пассажирский рейс в Женеву, когда на подходе к аэропорту врезался в горный массив и разрушился, при этом погибли 48 человек. На то время это была крупнейшая авиакатастрофа во Франции.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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