MONT BLANC: Body parts of passengers killed in possible Air India plane crashes over 50 years ago, have been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps. A local who has been combing the Bossons Glacier searching for remains, found a hand and the upper part of a leg. “I had never found any significant human remains before,” Daniel Roche said. He added that the remains could be of a female passenger from Air India Boeing 707, that crashed near the summit in 1966, killing all 117 on board. Another Air India flight crashed on the mountain in 1950, killing 48 people.
Roche contacted emergency services in the Chamonix Valley, who took the remains down the mountain by helicopter for examination for experts. “These remains are probably not from the same person. They are probably from passengers, but between the two aircraft, it is difficult to say,” said Stephane Bozon of the gendarmerie.
Just two weeks back, two bodies were found lying near each other, preserved in a receding glacier in the Diablerets massif in the Swiss Alps. They were identified as Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife Francine, who had disappeared 75 years ago.
