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'Eagle' Airborne Again After 2-month repair at Katunayake A Cunard Eagle Air-ways four-engined D.C.-6 plane left Katunayake airport on Thursday morning after extensive repairs to its engines and undercarriage. This aircraft which was carrying a c...
A. Senadheera
Air Crash at Ratmalana Airport
This Indian Airlines Viscount skidded off the Ratmalana airport runway at 2.30 p.m. yesterday in pouring rain and travelled on its "belly" a distance of over 250 yards before it came to a halt in front of a signpost of the Bata Shoe factory, which...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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
This is all that remained of the Royal Ceylon Air Force "Dove" which crashed at China Bay Airport on Thursday, killing all six occupants.—(Castle Studio, Trincomalee).
Castle Studio
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
This picture of Mr. Dudley Ranabahu, Air Ceylon pilot was taken last night by a "Mirror" cameraman at the Lunawa Hospital. Besides him is his wife, who had rushed on hearing that the plane had crashed.
Daily Mirror