Body parts from Air India plane crash years ago found in French Alps

A plane accident research enthusiast has allegedly found body parts of passengers killed in one or other of two Air India plane crashes The parts were found in  Mont Blanc in the French Alps In January 1966, an Air India Boeing 707 from Bombay to New York crashed near Mont Blanc's summit, killing all 117 people on board. Another Air India flight crashed on the mountain in 1950, killing 48 people

A plane accident research enthusiast has allegedly found body parts of passengers killed in one or other of two Air India plane crashes more than years ago on Mont Blanc in the French Alps.

Daniel Roche, who is fascinated by air plane accidents and has spent years combing the Bossons Glacier looking for remains, made the discovery on July 28. 

"I had never found any significant human remains before," he told AFP. This time however he had found a hand and the upper part of a leg. 

In January 1966, an Air India Boeing 707 from Bombay to New York crashed near Mont Blanc's summit, killing all 117 people on board. 

Another Air India flight crashed on the mountain in 1950, killing 48 people. 

Roche said the remains he had found could be of a female passenger from the 1966 Boeing 707 flight, as he also discovered one of the plane's four jet engines. 

Roche contacted local emergency services in the Chamonix valley who took the remains down the mountain by helicopter and they were due to be examined by experts. 

"These remains are probably not from the same person," said Stephane Bozon of the local gendarmerie. 

"They are probably from passengers, but between the two aircrafts, it's difficult to say".