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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
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit. All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror
An inferno of flames swept the main street of Munich recently, when a Convair transport aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed onto a tramcar filled with Christmas shoppers. Thirty people were killed. The aircraft was carrying 13 American...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
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