Air Crash at the Kai Tak Airport
A four-engined C-54 of the U. S. Air F coming from Okinawa with five people on board, was destroyed by fire on the runway when one of its wheels struck the embankment of the sea-wall during landing at Kai Tak Airport.
Pan-Asia Photos
Air Crash in Katunayake
The wreckage of the two-seater Balliol trainer which crashed yesterday at Katunayake with Pilot-Officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force at the Controls.
Morning Times
Plane Crash in Ratmalana
The Indian Airlines Viscount that crashed yesterday at the Ratmalana Airport. (More pictures on Page 3 and 16)
Daily Mirror
Plane Crashed in Angulana
The wreckage of a Beachcraft plane [...] U. S. which hit a Coconut tree and crashed on to the cemetery near the beach in Angulana.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Airliner Crash Scene - Cyprus
Rescue workers searching the wreckage of the chartered Britannia airliner which crashed on a hill outside Nicosia recently. The airliner, owned by the Swiss charter company, Globe Air, crashed in a rain and hail storm after being struck by lightni...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Plane Crashed in Munich
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...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Deepa charika pricegiven
To start the Deepa Charika cycle race, the National Security Minister T.B. Werapitiye hoists the national flag. The chief chairperson of the Deepa Charika competition committee, the chief author of the Sinhala division of the Times Institute Elmo ...
The Times of Ceylon Press