Reminds me of this movie. Robert Wagner's character wanted to go up to the crash site and loot the bodies.
Posted on 12/05/2021 5:57:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eight years after they were found.
The mountaineer stumbled across the precious stones in 2013. They had remained hidden in a metal box that was onboard an Indian plane that crashed in the desolate landscape some 50 years earlier.
In September 2012, India took possession of a bag of diplomatic mail from a Boeing 707 flying from Mumbai which crashed on the south-west face of Mont Blanc on 24 January 1966.
The crash killed 117 people including the pioneer of India’s nuclear program, Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
Authorities believe the precious stones are likely to have come from that flight, which had been en route from Mumbai to New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Air India Flight 101
Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London. On the morning of 24 January 1966, the aircraft operating the flight accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of VOR data, one of the receivers being out of service. The crash was almost at the exact spot where an Air India Lockheed 749 Constellation operating Air India Flight 245 on a charter flight[citation needed], had crashed in 1950 with the loss of all 48 on board that aircraft.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_101
Reminds me of this movie. Robert Wagner's character wanted to go up to the crash site and loot the bodies.
“been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, “
Local authority thieves shouldn’t get a cut. If you find treasure, you shouldn’t tell a soul.
“Gemstones worth €300,000 shared between Mont Blanc climber and authorities as man praised for handing discovery to police in 2013”
And then they promptly stole a cut.
Incorrect statement. Nothing prompt about it. It took over 7 years for them to skim their cut.
The crash was almost at the exact spot where an Air India Lockheed 749 Constellation operating Air India Flight 245 on a charter flight, had crashed in 1950 with the loss of all 48 on board that aircraft.
I wonder if the bling was from the earlier crash?
LOL
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