Air Crash at Ratmalana Airport
This Indian Airlines Viscount skidded off the Ratmalana airport runway at 2.30 p.m. yesterday in pouring rain and travelled on its "belly" a distance of over 250 yards before it came to a halt in front of a signpost of the Bata Shoe factory, which...
The Times of Ceylon Press
88 Britons Die in British Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: The tail section of the crashed British DC-4 airliner some 200 metres from the point of impact following last night's crush into a mountain near here. All 88 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. All were British. The passeng...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Plane Crashed in London
Firemen examining the crumpled nose of a Trans-Canada Airways jet-airliner after a plane had ploughed into a muddy cabage field when it overshot the runway while taking off in thick fog from London airport recently. The 90 passengers and crew of s...
United Press Photos
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...
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Plane Crashed in Scotland
A BOAC Stratocruiser crashed with the loss of 28 lives at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on Christmas Day. Seven of the crew and one passenger are the only survivors. Here is the nose of the Stratocruiser lying on its side on the runway. The rest of...
United Press Photos
Plane Crashed in Taiwan
The wreckage of the Thai Royal Air Force plane which crashed recently on a hill near the outskirts of Taipeh, shortly after taking off from Pine Hill Airport.
All the occupants including the Thai Air Commander and his wife were killed. The Air Com...
Pan-Asia Photos
Air Crash at Gatwick Airport
Mr. Adnan Menderes, Turkey's Prime Minister, narrowly escaped death when his airliner crashed near Getwick Airport during a thick for, killing 12 passengers and crew. Mr. Menderes smashed his way out of the plane with his secretary, Mr. Seafek Fen...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Watery Grave
Frogmen (right) from Thorney Island coming ashore and helping others still in the water after rescue operations on the Royal Air Force Flying Boat of the Sunderland Class, which crashed into the sea here recently in the sight of hundreds of holida...
Maurice Sayers