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Mr. Adnan Menderes, Turkey's Prime Minister, narrowly escaped death when his airliner crashed near Getwick Airport during a thick for, killing 12 passengers and crew. Mr. Menderes smashed his way out of the plane with his secretary, Mr. Seafek Fen...
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"Crash-girl's mother did not love her" Anthea Lycett, the 3-year-old "give-away baby" who survived the Benghazi air crash being carried by Mr. Lycett from the anbulance into a London hospital. Anthea was burned and had her elbow fractured in the ...
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Dakota Airliner Crashed in Spain
Thirty-two occupants, 29 of them students and three crew, lost their lives recently when a Dakota airliner chartered by the National Union of Students, crashed on the Montseny Mountains, 25 miles north of Barcelona. The students, most of them Brit...
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Funeral Service for Comet Disaster Victims at Porta Azzuro on Island of Elba
The scene as Fishermen carry the coffins containing the bodies of the victims - following the disaster to the British Comet Airliner. Thirty-five members of the passengers and crew of the machine lost their lives when the comet crashed into the Se...
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Seventy-six holiday makers had an amazing escape recently, when theis Hermes airliner crashed as it was landing in heavy rain at Southend. The aircraft's brake failed. As the pilot fought for control, it slewed off the runway, ploughed across a fi...
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An inferno of flames swept the main street of Munich recently, when a Convair transport aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed onto a tramcar filled with Christmas shoppers. Thirty people were killed. The aircraft was carrying 13 American...
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Plane Crashed in North West London
A small two-seater Auster aircraft that was being flown by two Australian dentists crashed on top of a four-storey block of flats in Willesden, North West London, recently killing both of them. The pilot was 30-year-old Robert Campbell, father of ...
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Two women were killed when a Victor Jet H-Bomber crashed on a farm-house at Stubton between Newark and Sleaford in Lincolnshire recently.
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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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Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Thwenty-three people lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting a power station chimney. The machine was about to land at Kastrup Airport on way from Moscow. Picture shows ambulances and frogmen waiti...
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