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KLM Lockheed Electra Airliner Crash
Rescuers working among the debris of the KLM Lockheed Electra airliner, which crashed into a hill near Cairo Airport recently killing 19 people. The plane was on its way from Rome to Karachi.
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King Gustav of Sweden During the Traditional "Battle of Flowers" festival
"A King Has Fun" Nice, France: Now ninety-one years old, King Gustav of Sweden laughingly throws flowers during the traditional "Battle of Flowers" festival celebrated during the King's stay here. (27th March, 1949)
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King Gustav of Sweden Toasting a Fellow Guest at the Hotel d'Angleterre
"No Tennis This Year" Nice, France: For the first time in his 41 annual visits to the Riviera, King Gustav of Sweden discards his tennis racket in favour of a glass and toasts a fellow guest at the Hotel d'Angleterre. The King, now in his 91st yea...
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A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
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The burnt-out tail section of the Czechoslovakian Ilyushin 18 airliner, which crashed near Casablanca after hitting a high-tension cable last week. The plane which was carrying 64 passengers and a crew of nine, had only one survivor, who was taken...
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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 ...
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Queen Juliana with Prince Bernhard on the Way to Guildhall
"Juliana Greets Cheering Londoners. Drive With Prince Bernhard to Guildhall." London: Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, accompanied by a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry, were to-day driven from Buckingham Palace to ...
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Sabena Boeing 707 Airplane Crash
The wreckage of the Sabena Airlines' Boeing 707 jetliner which crashed recently covering a wooded field on the outskirts of Brussels Airport. Seventy three people died in the crash, including all 18 members of the U. S. Figure skating team, on the...
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