Air India Boeing Hits Mountain
Mount Blanc, Switzerland: This is an aerial view of the wreckage of the London-bound Boeing 707 Air India plane that crashed on 15,782-ft. Mount Blanc with 117 people on board early this morning. There were no survivors.
All that is left of the B...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Airliner Crash Scene - Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus: A lightning-struck Britannia Airliner plunged into a hill near here today, killing 124 persons.
This picture shows rescue workers carrying a stretcher away from the scene after the plane crashed in lashing rain and hail into the h...
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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...
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Airliner Crash in Paris
Thirty people were injured and one was killed, when this four-engined airliner crashed recently at Orly airport near Paris after a flight from Tunis.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
Ambassador to Assist the Indonesian Government
Ambassador T. D. S. A. Dissanayaka of Sri Lanka with Dr. Burhani Tjokrohandoko Director-General of Haj Affairs of Indonesia just before he left in chatered DC-8 to bring the dead from the air crash in Colombo. The young ambassador has been commend...
Indonesian Observer
An Unusual Road Block
Overshooting its runway owing to brake failure, this Canberra came to rest straddled across the road Two-way traffic was completely held up. The incident occurred on the main London-to-Portsmouth road at Wesley, Surrey.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
BOAC Boeing 707 on Fire
Flames leaping from the wing of a BOAC Boeing 707 airliner which recently made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. One-hundred-and-twenty one of the 126 people aboard managed to escape from the blazing aircraft.
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Bodies in SLAF Hangar
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