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A water-logged tail-plane (at left) that tells the story of the Boston harbour air crash in the US. Sixty-two people were killed as the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra hurtled to its doom. The 11 survivors were seriously injured. The crash was b...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Colombian Airline Boeing 747 Crashes in Spain
The scene after a Colombian Airline Boeing 747 crashed into a muddy field and disintegrated in a fiery explosion at Mejorada Deal Campo, Spain. Nearly 180 people lost their lives.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Crash victims scattered near the wreckage a short while after the disaster.
The Times of Ceylon Press
This picture of Mr. Dudley Ranabahu, Air Ceylon pilot was taken last night by a "Mirror" cameraman at the Lunawa Hospital. Besides him is his wife, who had rushed on hearing that the plane had crashed.
Daily Mirror
Crash near Zurich's Kloten Airport
Firemen, policemen and rescue workers at the scene of the recent air mishap, where a Swissair Caravelle plane crashed five minutes after it took off from Zurich's Kloten Airport, to become the first major disaster in Swissair's 32-year history. Al...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Dakota Airliner Crashed in Spain
Thirty-two occupants, 29 of them students and three crew, lost their lives recently when a Dakota airliner chartered by the National Union of Students, crashed on the Montseny Mountains, 25 miles north of Barcelona. The students, most of them Brit...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Funeral Service for Comet Disaster Victims at Porta Azzuro on Island of Elba
The scene as Fishermen carry the coffins containing the bodies of the victims - following the disaster to the British Comet Airliner. Thirty-five members of the passengers and crew of the machine lost their lives when the comet crashed into the Se...
Lankadeepa
Seventy-six holiday makers had an amazing escape recently, when theis Hermes airliner crashed as it was landing in heavy rain at Southend. The aircraft's brake failed. As the pilot fought for control, it slewed off the runway, ploughed across a fi...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Rescue boats and a floating crane working around a Pacific airways Convair 880 which crashed recently in Hong Kong harbour, after taking off with 127 people aboard. All but one of them survived.
United Press Photos
Icelanders Accompany "Black Box"
The team of Icelanders who accompanied the "black box" to Australia. From left Messre Sigurudarson, Olafsson, Helgasson and Jonason.
The Times of Ceylon Press