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The '''Rocher de la Tournette''' is a rocky outcrop at 4,677 meters above sea level, on the summit ridge of [[Mont Blanc]] between the [[Petite Bosse]] and the summit. It is not considered as one of the 82 [[List of Alpine four-thousanders| of the Alps of more than 4 000 meters]], but appears in the complementary list of the secondary summits. It is also the summit of the '' l’éperon de la Tournette'' (grade of difficulty ''AD''), which leads to the summit of Mont Blanc from the [[Quintino Sella Hut (Mont Blanc)|Refuge Quintino Sella]].
==Air crash site==
The [[Lockheed Constellation]] ''Malabar Princess'' ([[Air India Flight 245]]) crashed on November 3, 1950, near the Rocher de la Tournette, with 48 passengers and crew members, a tragedy that inspired 1952 the novel ''[[La Neige en deuil]]'' (''The Snow in mourning'') of [[Henri Troyat]] (adapted to the cinema in 1956), then the movie ''[[Malabar Princess]]'' in 2004.
A second accident occurred on 24 January 1966, of the [[Boeing 707]] ''Kangchenjunga'' Bombay-New York ([[Air India Flight 101]]), which also struck the outcrop in the same sector. In 2013 this crash inspired a novel by [[Marc Levy]], ''[[Un sentiment plus fort que la peur]]'' (''A feeling stronger than fear'', English translation 2013, also under the title ''Stronger than Fear'').
==Air crash site==
The [[Lockheed Constellation]] ''Malabar Princess'' ([[Air India Flight 245]]) crashed on November 3, 1950, near the Rocher de la Tournette, with 48 passengers and crew members, a tragedy that inspired 1952 the novel ''[[La Neige en deuil]]'' (''The Snow in mourning'') of [[Henri Troyat]] (adapted to the cinema in 1956), then the movie ''[[Malabar Princess]]'' in 2004.
A second accident occurred on 24 January 1966, of the [[Boeing 707]] ''Kangchenjunga'' Bombay-New York ([[Air India Flight 101]]), which also struck the outcrop in the same sector. In 2013 this crash inspired a novel by [[Marc Levy]], ''[[Un sentiment plus fort que la peur]]'' (''A feeling stronger than fear'', English translation 2013, also under the title ''Stronger than Fear'').
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