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
88 Britons Die in Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: Wreckage of the British DC-4 airliner lies on the mountainside after crashing into a mountain near Perpignan Airport lat last night. 88 Britons aboard the airliner were killed. There were no survivors. The passengers were on the...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Plane Crashed in Angulana
Crowds gather around the Beachcraft aircraft which crashed on the beach bordering the Angulana cemetery yesterday afternoon just after it had taken off from Ratmalana.
Report of crash [...] foot of page [...]
The Times of Ceylon Press
Plane Crashed in Kimbulapitiya
The path of the ill-fated Icelandic Airways DC 8 after [...] through the coconut plantation at Kimbulapitiya.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Plane Crashed in London
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit.
All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror
Plane Crashed in New York
A police helicopter circling over the riot town of Rochester in New York recently crashed on to a house killing three occupants. Part of the plane's wing can be seen on top of a car. The crumpled remains are seen lying between the fireman below an...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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
Air Crash in Katunayake
The wreckage of the two-seater Balliol trainer which crashed yesterday at Katunayake with Pilot-Officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force at the Controls.
Morning Times
Plane Crash in Ratmalana
The Indian Airlines Viscount that crashed yesterday at the Ratmalana Airport. (More pictures on Page 3 and 16)
Daily Mirror
Plane Crashed in Angulana
The wreckage of a Beachcraft plane [...] U. S. which hit a Coconut tree and crashed on to the cemetery near the beach in Angulana.
The Times of Ceylon Press