Copies of The Hindu found in diplomatic bag that went down with AI aircraft 46 years ago

New Delhi: A bag of Indian diplomatic mail, which went down with an Air India (AI) aircraft 46 years ago in the French Alps, was on Tuesday put on display in the Ministry of External Affairs.
A tough khaki sack with Ministry of External Affairs stencilled in fading black, it yielded not diplomatic papers but Air India calendars and newspapers, including copies of The Hindu, then priced at just 13 paise. Dated January 21, 1966, The Hindu’s slightly shrivelled front page indicated that the previous day had been newsy — Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister designate, had said a new Cabinet would be sworn in on January 25 but declined to answer questions on the probable candidates.
The bag was in the cargo hold of an Air India flight, named Kanchenjunga, which crashed on Mont Blanc in the Swiss Alps while descending for a stopover at Geneva killing all the 117 aboard, including noted nuclear physicist and father of the Indian nuclear programme Homi Jahangir Bhabha and upcoming trade union leader Satish Loomba.
18/09/12 The Hindu

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