| Date: | Saturday 27 March 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers 604 Viking 1B |
| Owner/operator: | Indian National Airways |
| Registration: | VT-CEL |
| MSN: | 166 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1947 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Monte Cardo -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Roma (unknown airport) |
| London (unknown airport) |
Flew into the east side of Monte Cardo at an altitude of 2400 m. Visibility was poor at the time of the accident.
The aircraft had left New Delhi, India on March 24 on a charter flight to London, U.K. The aircraft departed Rome at 05:30 hours on March 27 on the last leg of the flight.
Sources:
The Indian Express - Mar 29, 1948
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