The Boeing 707–437 VT-DMN had first flown on 5 April 1961 and was delivered new to Air India on 25 May 1961.At the time, aircrew fixed the position of their aircraft as being above Mont Blanc by taking a a) The pilot-in-command, who knew on leaving Beirut that one of the VORs was unserviceable, miscalculated his position in relation to Mont Blanc and reported his own estimate of this position to the controller; the b) For want of a sufficiently precise phraseology, the correction was mis-understood by the pilot who, under the mistaken impression that he had passed the ridge leading to the summit and was still at a flight level which afforded sufficient safety clearance over the top of Mont Blanc, continued his descent.Wreckage of the crashed Boeing still remains at the crash site. All 20 passengers and crew on board the 1947 Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard died in the crash, which was attributed to metal fatigue on the starboard wing resulting in separation of the wing from the fuselage. It "pitched up quickly into a stall, recovered briefly from the stall, and stalled again". Flight 101 may refer to the following aviation accidents: National Airlines Flight 101, crashed on 11 February 1952, due failing propeller after take-off from Newark Airport Air India Flight 101, accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on 24 January 1966 TABSO Flight 101, crashed on 24 November 1966, near Bratislava in Slovakia The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the airplane's center of gravity was near or even aft of the airplane's limit and the airplane's trim was mis-set. The aircraft barely missed two factories, a commercial building, and the Budweiser Distribution Center in unincorporated Miami, Florida between the populated residential suburbs of Miami Springs and Doral. It skidded across the open field and onto NW 72nd Ave, a roadway that is typically full of traffic during the lunch hour and was full at the time of the accident, though the portion Flight 101 struck had red lights at both intersections. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of VOR data, one of the receivers being out of service. Pallets are held by rails at the sides from moving in an upward direction, but only the retractable end locks can stop the forward-and-aft movement. The captain, 42-year-old Dale Patrick "Pat" Thompson, had been with Fine Air since 1993. On August 7, 1997 the Douglas DC-8 crashed into a road (72nd Avenue) at 28th Street, in Miami near the airport.

:vii It was the only fatal passenger incident for Chalk's Ocean Airways. Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London that accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on the morning of 24 January 1966.

Inside one of the cars in the parking lot sat a 34-year-old man named Renato Alvarez who had just arrived back at his shop in the mini-mall after picking up lunch for his wife and himself. Both resulted from cargo loading irregularities.
The aircraft, bound for Santo Domingo, lost control shortly after takeoff. In 2008, a climber found some Indian newspapers dated 23 January 1966.In September 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box marked with the Air India logo at the site of the plane crash on Mont Blanc containing rubies, sapphires, and emeralds worth more than $300,000, which he handed in to the police to be returned to the rightful owners.In 2017 Daniel Roche, a Swiss climber who has searched the In July 2020, as a result of melting of the glacier, Indian newspapers from 1966 were found in good condition.1966 plane crash of an Air India Boeing 707 into Mont Blanc, FranceAn Air India Boeing 707 similar to the one involvedIncludes overseas departments and overseas territories Cargo compression or shifting may have occurred later.Ground crew interviews found that the flight was routinely full of pallets and the cargo locks were rarely engaged in some opinions, and it was further stated this was because they were thought to be irrelevant if the pallets could not move. It would have required exceptional skills and reactions which could not be expected from the pilot.The NTSB found that "a significant shift of cargo rearward at or before rotation did not occur and was not the cause of the initial extreme pitch up at rotation".