Air India Flight 101

When

24 Jan 1966

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

45.88° N, 6.87° E

Description

1966 plane crash of an Air India Boeing 707 into Mont Blanc, France

Deaths

117

Injured

0

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1966 aviation accident in France

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 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 India.

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