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"New Style British Dinghy for 'Ditched' Airman"
Scientific assistant Ann Wakely demonstrates a new type of single seat dinghy at the British Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, England. The dinghy, which has its own built-in survival canopy, is designed to afford maximu...
Central Office of Information, London
Firemen battling with the flames caused by the DC 8 jet airliner of United Airlines, which crashed into a busy part of Brooklyn last Friday after colliding over New York with a TWA Constellation. The other plane came down in the water at Staten Is...
Central Press Photos Ltd.
Dr. Rodrigo Sarmiento Survives the Plane Crash
Dr. Rodrigo Sarmiento (centre), who was convicted for manslaughter in New York and deported, was among one of the survivors of a huge plane that ditched eleven miles off Polillo in north-east Luzon. Picture shows the convicted Filipino doctor leav...
Pan-Asia Photos
Pilgrims Buried with Full Military Honours
The pilgrims from Indonesia who died in the air crash at Katunayake were buried with full military honours in their hometown in Benjarmasin in Kalimantan (formerly Borneo). In the photograph General Alamsyah Perwiranegara Minister for Religious Af...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Captain Charles Taylor (inset) who made a perfect landing saving the lives of 121 passengers and crew.—(UPI)
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
'Eagle' Airborne Again After 2-month repair at Katunayake A Cunard Eagle Air-ways four-engined D.C.-6 plane left Katunayake airport on Thursday morning after extensive repairs to its engines and undercarriage. This aircraft which was carrying a c...
A. Senadheera
Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
Planet News Ltd.
Seventy Nine Die as Crash Planes Fall on City
Seventy-nine people lost their lives when a Viscount airliner and a cargo plane crashed in Ankara (Turkey) in mid-air recently. Seventeen people died in the crash, the rest of the victims were hit by flying wreckage. Thirty-six shops and other bui...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.