Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 NOV 1950 |
| Time: | 09:43 |
| Type: | Lockheed L-749 Constellation |
| Operator: | Air-India |
| Registration: | VT-CQP |
| C/n / msn: | 2506 |
| First flight: | 1948 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 40 / Occupants: 40 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 48 / Occupants: 48 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mont Blanc (France)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Cairo (unknown airport), Egypt |
| Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG), Switzerland | |
| Flightnumber: | 245 |
Air-India flight 245 departed Bombay on a flight to London with several intermediate stops. While descending towards Geneva, the airplane flew into the side of Mont Blanc at an elevation of 15.000 feet.
The wreckage was located November 5.
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Sources:
» Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 51)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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