Aviation
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Asia
Air India 101
Relics of the tragedy reappear in France
José PEDRO Magalhães Ramos
7/14/2020
January 24, 1966. The Boeing 707 registered VT-DMN, manufactured in 1961 and soon delivered to Air India, operated a long flight from Bombay, bound for London.
The long flight had already made stops in Delhi and Beirut. Taking off from Beirut, he approves now bound for Zurich. On the route it would fly over the south of France shortly before landing.
The VT-DMN however, never reached Zurich. A navigation error caused his crew to start their descent ahead of time. Halfway there was a hill. A mountain, one of those very big. Mont Blanc, one of the most beautiful in the world.
Unfortunately, that day he harvested the elegant 707 from Air India and requested the lives of 117 people on board, including passengers and crew.
After 54 years of the tragedy, however, nature begins to bring us nostalgies and memories of that sad day.
Amid the melting of Mont Blanc, accelerated by high global temperatures, several newspapers from that distant January foral located in excellent condition more than 5 decades after the accident.
It is possible to read on its pages what was going on in India and in the World at that time. The historic election of the beloved Prime Minister Indira Ghandi had just taken place in the distant Asian country.
The newspapers were located by Timothee Motan, owner of a small hotel and restaurant, which intends to preserve and display the newspapers in his establishments. A beautiful and nostalgic tribute to the victims of the tragedy.
This is not the first time that a relic of that distant day has been recovered. In 2013 a small piece of luggage from the flight - a small box - was located containing a small fortune in jewelry worth up to about 1.5 million reais.
Who knows what else the mountain will return to us among the relics kept there since that distant January 66?
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José PEDRO Magalhães Ramos
He is a professional with almost four decades of experience in aviation. Having worked at Rio Sul and TAM in the 1980s and in the 1990's, joined Vasp where he spent 10 years in the Engineering area. He then created and operated the website www.aerospace.com.br for 4 years, now extinct and in 2004 he joined Gol, having stayed until 2017 and passed in various technical and business areas. Currently as a technical consultant still-and always-in the aviation area, he dedicates his private time to create and operate this our portal!
   
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