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Pilot Officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force was killed when a Balliol trainer in which he took off from Katunayake airport nose-diced about 1/2 a mile away after it had ascended about 400 ft.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Plane Crashed in Kimbulapitiya
The path of the ill-fated Icelandic Airways DC 8 after [...] through the coconut plantation at Kimbulapitiya.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Firemen examining the crumpled nose of a Trans-Canada Airways jet-airliner after a plane had ploughed into a muddy cabage field when it overshot the runway while taking off in thick fog from London airport recently. The 90 passengers and crew of s...
United Press Photos
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit. All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror
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.
A police helicopter circling over the riot town of Rochester in New York recently crashed on to a house killing three occupants. Part of the plane's wing can be seen on top of a car. The crumpled remains are seen lying between the fireman below an...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Plane Crashed in North West London
A small two-seater Auster aircraft that was being flown by two Australian dentists crashed on top of a four-storey block of flats in Willesden, North West London, recently killing both of them. The pilot was 30-year-old Robert Campbell, father of ...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.