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"Scimitar" Crashes in the English Channel
Commander J. D. Russell, Fleet Air Arm, piloting a "Scimitar" supersonic-fighter crashed to his death after making a landing on the aircraft-carrier "Victorious" in the English Channel. The aircraft had made a perfect deck landing, when the "arres...
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
Bodies Scattered at Katunayake
Bodies, some charred, some sans limbs found scattered at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The bodies of 147 air crash victims wrapped in cloth and mats lying in a Sri Lanka Air Force hangar.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Crash victims scattered near the wreckage a short while after the disaster.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Dead Bodies Found at Asylum Building Collapse
These are the dead bodies of two people who died on the spot at building collapse in the insane asylum.
Lankadeepa
Pilot Officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force was killed when a Balliol trainer in which he took off from Katunayake airport nose-diced about 1/2 a mile away after it had ascended about 400 ft.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press