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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.
Plane Crashed in North West London
A small two-seater Auster aircraft that was being flown by two Australian dentists crashed on top of a four-storey block of flats in Willesden, North West London, recently killing both of them. The pilot was 30-year-old Robert Campbell, father of ...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
The RcyAF "Pioneer" plane crash-landed on a house at Nuwara Eliya yesterday after developing engine trouble. The pilot, Flying Officer, Walter Fernando, tried to land on the racecourse but was unable to do so owing to crowds that had gathered. The...
Photo Centre Photographers - Nuwara Eliya
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
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
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.
Plane Crashed in the Philippines
Survivors of a huge passenger plane which crashed-landed in the sea eleven miles off Polillo in northeast Luzon (Philippines) were picked up by rescue teams, after remaining in the water for three hours. Picture shows the victims being helped to a...
Pan-Asia Photos
The burnt-out tail section of the Czechoslovakian Ilyushin 18 airliner, which crashed near Casablanca after hitting a high-tension cable last week. The plane which was carrying 64 passengers and a crew of nine, had only one survivor, who was taken...
Planet News Ltd.
Two women were killed when a Victor Jet H-Bomber crashed on a farm-house at Stubton between Newark and Sleaford in Lincolnshire recently.
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
Planet News Ltd.