Constellation engine found on Mont Blanc.

One some articles I read about the subject, aniel Roche says the engine he found is a R-2800… something wrong there no ?

The link works although it is in French.

Presumably this Daniel Roche is not the famous history author of the same name.

Details of the 707 crash below.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660124-0

And the link to the L-749 crash
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19501103-0
Hope it helps,
Be lucky
David
Oddly it turns up on a type search but not on Air India search.

I could think of a Dutch museum that could use any spare part for their C-121A (=N749NL) :rolleyes:
Aerovet

With the Ozzie tradition of improvisation I wouldn’t have thought it was a problem but as you’ve now got the 4 spares all would seem to be well. (See you on Tuesday.)

No, the AI Connie at that date would have been an L749 using -B series engines. Even if it were an L1049, it would at best have had -D series.

Our Connie has the -93[mil] or -EA3[civil] series engine. We’ve just secured another 4 for spares, so we’re probably ok for a while.

G’day 😉

What does that mean? It’s from a different wreck?

Nope, sorry!

Err…no we won’t…it’s the wrong series engine.

G’day 😉

The link works although it is in French.

Presumably this Daniel Roche is not the famous history author of the same name.

Details of the 707 crash below.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660124-0

The story of the “Malabar Princess” (Air India Constellation) on Mont Blanc has always fascinated me even more so when a few years later Air India wrapped another aircraft around the same mountain virtually in the same place this time a Boeing 707. Both aircraft being on approach to Geneva. The Constellation crashed into a Glacier and slowly over the last 50 years the downward flow of the glacier has taken pieces of the Constellation to the bottom of the mountain where bits and pieces have turned up near the local village. Looking at the latest news buletins on this it looks like the engine has been airlifted off the mountain by a helicopter. Hope this link works.. Does any one know much about this chap Daniel Roche who is described as an aviation restorer.

http://www.linternaute.com/actualite/depeche/afp/26/565404/mont-blanc_un_moteur_de_l_avion_malabar_princess_helitreuille_a_chamonix_58_ans_apres.shtml

Watch out, Feather No 3 will be along shortly with his mates from HARS to collect it as a spare for their Connie.