ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336050
| Date: | Friday 3 November 1950 |
| Time: | 09:43 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-749 Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | Air-India |
| Registration: | VT-CQP |
| MSN: | 2506 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 48 / Occupants: 48 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mont Blanc -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Cairo (unknown airport) |
| Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG) |
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.
Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 51)
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