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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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Thirty people were injured and one was killed, when this four-engined airliner crashed recently at Orly airport near Paris after a flight from Tunis.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
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
Ambassador to Assist the Indonesian Government
Ambassador T. D. S. A. Dissanayaka of Sri Lanka with Dr. Burhani Tjokrohandoko Director-General of Haj Affairs of Indonesia just before he left in chatered DC-8 to bring the dead from the air crash in Colombo. The young ambassador has been commend...
Indonesian Observer
Overshooting its runway owing to brake failure, this Canberra came to rest straddled across the road Two-way traffic was completely held up. The incident occurred on the main London-to-Portsmouth road at Wesley, Surrey.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
"Crash-girl's mother did not love her" Anthea Lycett, the 3-year-old "give-away baby" who survived the Benghazi air crash being carried by Mr. Lycett from the anbulance into a London hospital. Anthea was burned and had her elbow fractured in the ...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Flames leaping from the wing of a BOAC Boeing 707 airliner which recently made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. One-hundred-and-twenty one of the 126 people aboard managed to escape from the blazing aircraft.
United Press International (UK) Ltd.