London : Indian newspapers with headlines of Indira Gandhi’s election victory in the year 1966 have been found from French Bossons Glaciers on the Mont Blanc mountain range in Western Europe. This is the Alps mountain area of France, known as Moe Blanc Glacier, the presence of Indian newspaper ‘National Herald’ in the glacier’s snow is making a lot of headlines. However, it is being told that an AI plane also crashed at this place in the same year.
According to a French newspaper, on June 24, 1966, an AI plane crashed in Europe’s highest mountain range, from which the wreckage has found copies of about two more Indian newspapers, including ‘National Herald’ and ‘Economic Times’. Timothy Motin, who runs a cafe-restaurant at an altitude of 1350 meters above the French resort of Chamonix, also found this newspaper. Britain’s ‘The Guardian’ newspaper and other agencies wrote to local French newspaper ‘Le Dauphine Libere ‘, quoting information provided by Timothy, ‘They are still drying up but in very good condition. You can read them.’
‘Debris found in the glacier’
Timothy said, ‘This is not unusual. Whenever we roam the glacier with friends, we get debris of the crashed plane. You understand from experience where things are. The Air India Boeing 707 aircraft crashed into the mountains due to a communication gap related to air traffic control, in which all 177 people, including crew members, were killed. Motin’s café is about 45 minutes’ walk from Bossons Glacier.
Motin said that he luckily got the newspapers because the snow, in which it had been buried in for almost six decades, probably started melting recently. He said that after drying up these newspapers would become part of the collection of crashed plane debris that Motin has kept as decorations for people visiting his café. Many things related to this crash of Air India aircraft started to be received from 2012. In 2012, a bag of diplomatic mail was found bearing the stamp of ‘Diplomatic Posts, Ministry of External Affairs’ in the service of the Government of India.