PLANE WRECKAGE ON MOUNTAIN
WORK OF GROUND •RESCUE TEAM ' LONDON, November 5. The wreckage of the missing Air India Constellation aeroplane has been sighted 700 ft below the top of Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in Switzerland. The Constellation has been broken in two. and it is feared that there are no survivors among the 40 Indian seamen and the crew of eight on board. Had the wreckage not been found it would have been covered by a snow drift within a few days. Captain Jatar, operations director of Air India, who was on-board the Dakota which sighted the wreckage, said that they had gone very close to the crashed Constellation and could see no signs of life. Later Air India officials said that the ground rescue party had been forced to turn back to-night because the weather was too bad affil because the party started too late in the day. The ground rescue team hopes to make an early start up the slope to-morrow. The aeroplane, which was en route from Bombay to London, was last heard from when approaching Geneva for a landing after completing the flight from Cairo. \
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 7
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