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Gatwick, Surrey: Police comb the disintegrated wreckage of an Afghanistan Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 airliner which crashed early this morning whilst attempting to land in thick ground fog at Gatwick airport. The airliner carrying 63 persons, shea...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Mr. Adnan Menderes, Turkey's Prime Minister, narrowly escaped death when his airliner crashed near Getwick Airport during a thick for, killing 12 passengers and crew. Mr. Menderes smashed his way out of the plane with his secretary, Mr. Seafek Fen...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
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
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.
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.
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.
Twenty people were killed when a Royal Air Force Beverley transport plane crashed into a cluster of cottages beside a farm in Drayton, near Abingdon. The plane burst into flames and set fire to the homes. Seventeen of the dead were passengers and ...
Mirrorpic
A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
Planet News Ltd.
The jagged ends of the tail-piece and the twisted propeller mark the spot where a luxury Solent flying boat owned by Aquila Airlines crashed, last night, in mist, killing the crew of 8 and 35 passengers; while 15 seriously injured were taken to ho...
United Press Photos
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