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
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 England
A BACIII airliner — Britain's newest aircraft — took off from Wisley, Surrey recently on a circular trip during which more tests were to be made on aerodynamics and ended in disaster when it lost height rapidly and plunged into this field at Stone...
Daily Mirror
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
Air Crash in Trincomalee
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
Air Florida Plane Crash
Was icing a factor in the crash of this Air Florida plane in January?
The Times of Ceylon Press
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...
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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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