Malabar Princess and the two search for the remains of the Malabar Princess, an Air India plane that crashed in 1950. The film was shot on location at Mont Blanc in France. The Malabar Princess disaster actually occurred on 3 November 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 on 15 September 1989 on the surface of the Glacier des Bossons, 1,900 m above sea level. A second engine was found on 22 September 2008 at 2,000 m above sea
USS Malabar (AF-37) New Jersey, 1 July to spend the rest of the year cruising along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean from Argentia, Newfoundland, to Bermuda. On 3 January 1947 "Malabar" departed Bermuda for Europe, arriving Casablanca, French Morocco, the 14th to unload her cargo. After a stop at Naples, Italy, she returned to the U.S. East Coast later in the month to continue her service force operations between Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Norfolk, Virginia; and Argentia, interspersed with annual supply trips to Europe through the next 8 years. "Malabar" was placed in reserve at Galveston, Texas, 20 June 1955 before decommissioning