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A water-logged tail-plane (at left) that tells the story of the Boston harbour air crash in the US. Sixty-two people were killed as the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra hurtled to its doom. The 11 survivors were seriously injured. The crash was b...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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
Air India Boeing Hits Mountain
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.
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.
The Caravelle seen after it had landed at Orly Airport showing the part of the fuselage which was ripped open.
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Wreckage of the two-seater Balliol trainer which crashed at Katunayake with pilot-officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force.
Lankadeepa
The search for bodies went on yesterday too.
The Times of Ceylon Press
RAF Britannia with seven passengers and seven crew overshot the runway at Khomaskar base recently. ploughing through security lights at the perimeter fence before coming to rest on the shallow salt flats.The pilot and the co-pilot were slightly hu...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
"Spider's Web" Saves British Seahawk Fighter
This dramatic picture — taken during an actual emergency landing on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean — shows how a nylon elastic barrier, aptly name the "Spider's Web", saved a British Seahawk jet fighter that was unable to lower its arres...
Central Office of Information, London