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DUNDEE, Scotland, July 26 (UPI) -- A British geography student on a visit to the French Alps said she discovered a bag of mail from a November 1950 plane crash.
Freya Cowan, 22, a Student at Scotland's University of Dundee who was in the Alps researching global warming, said she found a mailbag from the Malabar Princess, an Air India Lockheed Constellation that took off from London in 1950 and crashed en route to Geneva, killing all 40 passengers and eight crew, Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
Cowan said the bag contained about 75 letters and birthday cards and she is now embarking along with the students who accompanied her on the expedition to return them to the senders or intended recipients.
Cowan said the letters, which had descended about 8,000 feet from the site of the crash, do not appear to have been written by the passengers on the plane and the mail was all bound for the United States.
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