BEGINNING NEXT Sunday, December 19, the municipality of Chamonix, a French resort area at the base of Mont Blanc in the Alps, will display gems from India that lay buried in the Alps for almost 50 years. These were part of the wreckage of a Mumbai-Geneva Air India passenger flight that crashed near the Mont Blanc summit on January 24, 1966, and killed all 117 passengers aboard, including nuclear scientist Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
In a December 3 Facebook post “Le tresor du Kangchenjunga revele (Kangchenjunga Treasure Revealed)”, the Municipality of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc said, “In 1966, the crash of Kangchenjunga, Air India plane, in the Massif of Mont-Blanc killed 117 victims.
