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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
A Group from Icelandic Airlines to Assist in the Air Crash Probe
A group of airline engineers, captains, operations managers from Icelandic Airlines is here to assist in the air crash probe. From left are Mr. J. O. Olafsson, Operations Engineer, Mr. G. Helgason, Check Engineer, Mr. O. A. Sonasson, Chief Flight ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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
Enthusiastic crowds mobbed the astronauts' open car as they were driving out of the Katunayake Airport. Picture shows Alan Bean with his hands up, looking rather worried.
Daily Mirror
Ambassador of Iceland Thanks Sri Lanka
Mr. Petur Thoreteinsson, (left) roving Ambassador of Iceland conveyed to the President Mr. J. R. Jayewardene (centre) the Iceland Government's thanks and appreciation of the manner in which Sri Lanka helped all those involved in the tragic Iceland...
The Times of Ceylon Press