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Air India Boeing Hits Mountain

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  • 1966-1-31

Mount Blanc, Switzerland: This is an aerial view of the wreckage of the London-bound Boeing 707 Air India plane that crashed on 15,782-ft. Mount Blanc with 117 people on board early this morning. There were no survivors. All that is left of the B...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Airliner Crash Scene - Cyprus

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  • 1967-4-20

Nicosia, Cyprus: A lightning-struck Britannia Airliner plunged into a hill near here today, killing 124 persons. This picture shows rescue workers carrying a stretcher away from the scene after the plane crashed in lashing rain and hail into the h...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Airliner Crash Scene - Cyprus

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  • 1967-4-28

Rescue workers searching the wreckage of the chartered Britannia airliner which crashed on a hill outside Nicosia recently. The airliner, owned by the Swiss charter company, Globe Air, crashed in a rain and hail storm after being struck by lightni...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Airliner Crash in Paris

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  • 1957-1-31

Thirty people were injured and one was killed, when this four-engined airliner crashed recently at Orly airport near Paris after a flight from Tunis.

Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.

Ambassador to Assist the Indonesian Government

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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

An Unusual Road Block

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  • 1960-9-30

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.

BOAC Boeing 707 on Fire

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  • 1968-4-22

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.

Bodies in SLAF Hangar

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  • 1978-11-18

The bodies of 147 air crash victims wrapped in cloth and mats lying in a Sri Lanka Air Force hangar.

The Times of Ceylon Press

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