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88 Britons Die in British Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: The tail section of the crashed British DC-4 airliner some 200 metres from the point of impact following last night's crush into a mountain near here. All 88 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. All were British. The passeng...
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88 Britons Die in Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: Wreckage of the British DC-4 airliner lies on the mountainside after crashing into a mountain near Perpignan Airport lat last night. 88 Britons aboard the airliner were killed. There were no survivors. The passengers were on the...
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A Spacecraft Check-Out by Apollo 12 Astronauts
Washington: Apollo 12 astronauts (from left) Charles Conrad Jr., Commander; Richard Gordon, Jr., Command Module Pilot; and Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, during a spacecraft check-out at North American Rockwell Space Division in Downey, California...
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Aberfan Disaster Funeral Service
Aberfan, Wales: This is a view of the funeral when 80 children and 1 adult were buried here today, October 27th. The dead perished in the October 21 Avalanche of sludge which overwhelmed the village in general and the school in particular when a c...
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Air India Boeing Hits Mountain
Mount Blanc, Switzerland: This is an aerial view of the wreckage of the London-bound Boeing 707 Air India plane that crashed on 15,782-ft. Mount Blanc with 117 people on board early this morning. There were no survivors. All that is left of the B...
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Nicosia, Cyprus: A lightning-struck Britannia Airliner plunged into a hill near here today, killing 124 persons. This picture shows rescue workers carrying a stretcher away from the scene after the plane crashed in lashing rain and hail into the h...
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Rescue workers searching the wreckage of the chartered Britannia airliner which crashed on a hill outside Nicosia recently. The airliner, owned by the Swiss charter company, Globe Air, crashed in a rain and hail storm after being struck by lightni...
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America's First Moon Landing Crewmen
America's first moon landing crewmen said recently they were thrilled that the "twists and turns of fate" had brought them the coveted assignment, but they do not know yet who will first step out on the lunar surface. Apollo-11 astronaut Edwin "Bu...
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American & Soviet Spacemen in a Joint Handshake
American and Soviet spacemen in a joint handshake when they met for the first time at a recent reception in Athens marking the end of the 6th International Astronomical Congress. From left to right are Soviet Vokshod 2, cosmonaut, Lt-Col. Alexei L...
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Anxious Moment of Relatives Awaiting Rescue of Trapped Miners.
Captured anxious moment of two relatives of Foreman Martinet, who was the last man to be rescued from the collapsed tunnel in Champagnole, Eastern France. .
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