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 contacted emergency services in the Chamonix valley who took the remains down the mountain by helicopter for examination by experts. “These remains are probably not from the same person,” said Stephane Bozon of the gendarmerie. A DNA search identified the couple as Marcelin Dumoulin, a 40-year-old shoemaker, and his wife Francine, a schoolteacher aged 37, who disappeared in the Alps 75 years before.

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2017 20:03 UTC