Boeing 707 crash, Jan 24, 1966 (117 killed), Mont-Blanc H...
Boeing 707 accident on January 24, 1966 near Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie, France with 117 fatalities. Cause: The investigating commission's most likely...
- Date: January 24, 1966
- Aircraft: Boeing 707
- Location: Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie, France
- Fatalities: 117
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The investigating commission's most likely hypothesis is that the captain miscalculated the aircraft's position relative to Mont Blanc after departing Beirut with one VOR inoperative, and that the crew did not follow the required altitude procedure of 17,500 feet at that point.
Air India Flight 101, a Boeing 707 named Kanchenjunga, was flying from Bombay toward New York with intermediate stops and left Beirut with one VOR inoperative. While approaching Geneva it requested a descent above the cloud layer, and about twenty minutes before its arrival it struck Mont Blanc at about 4,677 m. All 117 people on board were killed.