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The burnt-out tail section of the Czechoslovakian Ilyushin 18 airliner, which crashed near Casablanca after hitting a high-tension cable last week. The plane which was carrying 64 passengers and a crew of nine, had only one survivor, who was taken...
Planet News Ltd.
Two women were killed when a Victor Jet H-Bomber crashed on a farm-house at Stubton between Newark and Sleaford in Lincolnshire recently.
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
Planet News Ltd.
Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Prime Minister R. Premadasa at Angoda Mental Hospital
The Prime Minister R. Premadasa visited the Angoda mental hospital grounds, where a part of a three-storey building had collapsed, killing five patients and causing injuries to six more. The Minister for the Colombo District, Mr. Weerasinghe Malli...
S. Chithrananda
Prince Makonnen Killed in Car Crash
Prince Makonnen, 33-year-old second son of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, died early today after a car crash. The Minister of the Interior Dedjadjmatch Mausfin Shillassie, was seriously injured in the crash about 40 miles from Addis Ababa. P...
Central Press Photos Ltd.
Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Twenty-three people, 18 of them passengers, lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting the land at Kastrup airport on its journey to Moscow. Our Keystone photo shows the tail of the wrecked aircraft b...
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.
Sabena Boeing 707 Airplane Crash
One of the engines of the Sabena Boeing 707 jet airliner which crashed just outside Brussels international airport recently, lying buried in the earth at the spot where a farm-worker was killed when the plane descended into the field in which he w...
United Press Photos
Sabena Boeing 707 Airplane Crash
The wreckage of the Sabena Airlines' Boeing 707 jetliner which crashed recently covering a wooded field on the outskirts of Brussels Airport. Seventy three people died in the crash, including all 18 members of the U. S. Figure skating team, on the...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.