Alpine melt yields old India headlines: Indira Gandhi is PM

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The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps yields more and more secrets as it melts -- this time a clutch of newspapers with banner headlines from ...

The copies of the Indian newspapers the National Herald and The Economic Times were probably aboard an Air India Boeing 707 that crashed on the mountain on Jan 24, 1966, killing 177 people. CHAMONIX, France: The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps yields more and more secrets as it melts - this time a clutch of newspapers with banner headlines from when Indira Gandhi became India's first and so far only woman prime minister in 1966.

Once the papers have dried out, they will join a growing collection of found items from the crash that Mottin has put on display at the Cabane du Cerro.

 

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