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Wreckage of the two-seater Balliol trainer which crashed at Katunayake with pilot-officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force.
Lankadeepa
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
Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Retired Puisne Judge Dr. H. W. Thambiah with His Grandchildren
Retired Puisne Judge Dr. H. W. Thambiah, Q.C.L.L.D. leader of the Sri Lanka delegation to the Asian African Legal Consulative Committee left the Island recently for New Delhi. The other member of the delegation is Mr. Rodney Vandergert of the Mini...
R. B. M. Sumanadasa
The Arrival of Apollo-12 Crew in Sri Lanka
The Apollo 12 trio, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean and their wives Jane, Barbara and Sue who arrived at the Katunayake International Airport yesterday on a three-day visit are seen descending from the presidential aircraft which brou...
The Times of Ceylon Press