The film was shot on location at Mont Blanc in France . The Malabar Princess disaster actually occurred on 3 November 1950 . It was Flight 245 , a Lockheed Constellation aircraft of Air India , which had crashed at 4,700 meters above sea level . One of the engines of the wreckage was found on 15 September 1989 on the surface of the Glacier des Bossons , 1,900 m above sea level . A second engine was found on 22 September 2008 at 2,000 m above sea level on the same glacier
Flight 245
Air India Flight 245
Malabar Princess