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Dakota Airliner Crashed in Spain
Thirty-two occupants, 29 of them students and three crew, lost their lives recently when a Dakota airliner chartered by the National Union of Students, crashed on the Montseny Mountains, 25 miles north of Barcelona. The students, most of them Brit...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Dead Bodies Found at Asylum Building Collapse
These are the dead bodies of two people who died on the spot at building collapse in the insane asylum.
Lankadeepa
Dr. Rodrigo Sarmiento Survives the Plane Crash
Dr. Rodrigo Sarmiento (centre), who was convicted for manslaughter in New York and deported, was among one of the survivors of a huge plane that ditched eleven miles off Polillo in north-east Luzon. Picture shows the convicted Filipino doctor leav...
Pan-Asia Photos
Fred Winter Makes an Unorthodox Exit
Fred Winter makes an unorthodox exit as he parts company with Mrs. Walwyn's "Willowhill".
Morning Times
Funeral Service for Comet Disaster Victims at Porta Azzuro on Island of Elba
The scene as Fishermen carry the coffins containing the bodies of the victims - following the disaster to the British Comet Airliner. Thirty-five members of the passengers and crew of the machine lost their lives when the comet crashed into the Se...
Lankadeepa
Seventy-six holiday makers had an amazing escape recently, when theis Hermes airliner crashed as it was landing in heavy rain at Southend. The aircraft's brake failed. As the pilot fought for control, it slewed off the runway, ploughed across a fi...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Rescue boats and a floating crane working around a Pacific airways Convair 880 which crashed recently in Hong Kong harbour, after taking off with 127 people aboard. All but one of them survived.
United Press Photos
Icelanders Accompany "Black Box"
The team of Icelanders who accompanied the "black box" to Australia. From left Messre Sigurudarson, Olafsson, Helgasson and Jonason.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Part of the Icelandic Airways DC 8, a short while after the crash.
The Times of Ceylon Press
