The HMS Wakeful with a Rescue Aircraft
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The HMS Wakeful, a frigate of the Mediterranean Fleet, arrived in Malta towing an American amphibian rescue aircraft abandoned during operations at sea.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
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The HMS Wakeful with a Rescue Aircraft
The HMS Wakeful, a frigate of the Mediterranean Fleet, arrived in Malta towing an American amphibian rescue aircraft abandoned during operations at sea.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
Dismantling operations being carried on the Indian Airlines Viscount airliner, which skidded into the approach road at Ratmalana Airport last Wednesday. Since then the approach road has been closed to traffic.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Indonesian Embassy Staff and Families
Members of the Indonesian Embassy staff and their families keeping bodies lying in the hangar.
S. Shivaraj
Colombian Airline Boeing 747 Crashes in Spain
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The Times of Ceylon Press
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United Press International (UK) Ltd.
A water-logged tail-plane (at left) that tells the story of the Boston harbour air crash in the US. Sixty-two people were killed as the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra hurtled to its doom. The 11 survivors were seriously injured. The crash was b...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Twenty people were killed when a Royal Air Force Beverley transport plane crashed into a cluster of cottages beside a farm in Drayton, near Abingdon. The plane burst into flames and set fire to the homes. Seventeen of the dead were passengers and ...
Mirrorpic
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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.