Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London that accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966 . 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 Air India Flight 245 , a Lockheed 749 Constellation on a charter flight , had crashed in 1950 with the loss of all 48 on board that aircraft
Air India Flight 245
Air India Flight 245
Air India Flight 101