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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...
Planet News Ltd.
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit. All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror
A police helicopter circling over the riot town of Rochester in New York recently crashed on to a house killing three occupants. Part of the plane's wing can be seen on top of a car. The crumpled remains are seen lying between the fireman below an...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
RAF Britannia with seven passengers and seven crew overshot the runway at Khomaskar base recently. ploughing through security lights at the perimeter fence before coming to rest on the shallow salt flats.The pilot and the co-pilot were slightly hu...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Princess Margaretha of Sweden and Mr. John Ambler Leaving on Their Honeymoon
Princess Margaretha of Sweden and her husband, Mr. John Ambler, a London businessman, were recently married in a small Swedish village in the Oeland Island. They are seen leaving on their honeymoon, Peasants decorated their car with hay as traditi...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Rescuers testing the rescue capsule which was used to bring to the surface which was used to bring to the surface last week three of the miners trapped 262-feet underground in a flooded iron mine at Peine, West Germany.
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Soviet Cosmonauts and Wives in Triumphant Procession
Moscow, USSR: Cosmonauts Pavel I. Belyaev (left) and Alexei Leonov, who last week shot to fame and history-making in their spacecraft Vokshod II, wave bouqets of flowers from their flower-strewn car as they are driven in triumph on the way to Red ...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Aboard Carrier Wasp: The two American astronauts launched into orbit on June 3rd, "splashed down" safely by parachute in the Atlantic 400 miles from Bermuda yesterday. They came down 48 miles from the main recovery vessel, the carrier wasp and the...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Picture shows police and experts searching through a field in Duerrenaesch, Switzerland, in an effort to identify wreckage found after the crash of the Rome-bound Swiss Air Caraville jet recently. Eighty people aboard the airliner lost their lives...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.