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Air Crash at the Kai Tak Airport
A four-engined C-54 of the U. S. Air F coming from Okinawa with five people on board, was destroyed by fire on the runway when one of its wheels struck the embankment of the sea-wall during landing at Kai Tak Airport.
Pan-Asia Photos
Indonesian Embassy Staff and Families
Members of the Indonesian Embassy staff and their families keeping bodies lying in the hangar.
S. Shivaraj
A couple that survived: Mas Abi Karsa, Editor of an Indonesian newspaper and his wife.
The Times of Ceylon Press
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.
Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Thwenty-three people lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting a power station chimney. The machine was about to land at Kastrup Airport on way from Moscow. Picture shows ambulances and frogmen waiti...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Surviving Super Constellation Crash
The Canadian aircraft carrier, "Bonaventure" approaching Eire with injured survivors and some bodies recovered from the sea, following the Super Constellation crash in the Atlantic. Uninjured survivors were being taken to Antwerp aboard the Swiss ...
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.