Air India plane crash: 46 years later, Indian diplomatic bag discovered on Mt Blanc

A bag of Indian diplomatic mail is set to be delivered more than 46 years late after it was found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed in January 1966.
The jute bag, stamped "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered by mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger on August 21.
"Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining on the Bossons glacier," so he and his neighbour decided to go have a look, Christmann said.
The diplomatic bag was handed over to police in the town of Chamonix at the base of the mountain. The Indian embassy in Paris today said it had not been informed of the discovery but that officials would be looking into it with a view to recovering the bag.
29/08/12 Indian Express

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