Plane Crashed in the Philippines
Survivors of a huge passenger plane which crashed-landed in the sea eleven miles off Polillo in northeast Luzon (Philippines) were picked up by rescue teams, after remaining in the water for three hours. Picture shows the victims being helped to a...
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Crash Victims
Crash victims scattered near the wreckage a short while after the disaster.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Icelanders Accompany "Black Box"
The team of Icelanders who accompanied the "black box" to Australia. From left Messre Sigurudarson, Olafsson, Helgasson and Jonason.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Air Crash at Ratmalana Airport
This Indian Airlines Viscount skidded off the Ratmalana airport runway at 2.30 p.m. yesterday in pouring rain and travelled on its "belly" a distance of over 250 yards before it came to a halt in front of a signpost of the Bata Shoe factory, which...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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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Plane Crashed in London
Firemen examining the crumpled nose of a Trans-Canada Airways jet-airliner after a plane had ploughed into a muddy cabage field when it overshot the runway while taking off in thick fog from London airport recently. The 90 passengers and crew of s...
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Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Twenty-three people, 18 of them passengers, lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting the land at Kastrup airport on its journey to Moscow. Our Keystone photo shows the tail of the wrecked aircraft b...
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Plane Crashed in Scotland
A BOAC Stratocruiser crashed with the loss of 28 lives at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on Christmas Day. Seven of the crew and one passenger are the only survivors. Here is the nose of the Stratocruiser lying on its side on the runway. The rest of...
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