Malabar Princess

Malabar Princess is a 2004 French film directed by Gilles Legrand. The film is about a young boy called Tom, who is sent to live with his grandfather in the French Alps after his mother disappeared during an excursion with her husband, Pierre, in the French Alps. He becomes friends with Benot, a boy about his age. While searching for Toms mother they come across the remains of a plane that had crashed during the 1950s.

The film was shot on location at Mount Blanc in France. The Malabar Princess disaster actually occurred onNovember 1950. It was Flight 245, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft of Air India, which had crashed at 4,700 meters above sea level. One of the engines of the wreckage was found onSeptember 1989 on the surface of the Glacier des Bossons, 1,900 m above sea level. A second engine was found onSeptember 2008 at 2,000 m above sea level on the same glacier.

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