On the morning of 3 November 1950, the Lockheed L-749A Constellation serving the flight crashed into Mont Blanc, France, while approaching Geneva.

While over France, descending towards Geneva Airport, the flight crashed into the French Alps in stormy weather, killing all on board.

[1][2][3] The airplane hit the face of the Rocher de la Tournette at a height of 4,677 m (15,344 ft), on the French side of Mont Blanc.

On 8 June 1978, a patrol of the French mountain police found letters and a sack at the foot of the Bossons Glacier.

[4] Sixteen years after the accident, Air India Flight 101 crashed in almost exactly the same spot under similar circumstances.