Plane Crashed in Katunayake
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1955-5-10
Pilot Officer N. S. Chelvarajan of the Royal Ceylon Air Force was killed when a Balliol trainer in which he took off from Katunayake airport nose-diced about 1/2 a mile away after it had ascended about 400 ft.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Flag
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1978-11-18
Mourning the deceased from the air crash.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Surviving Super Constellation Crash
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1962-10-6
A miracle Atlantic rescue went last week with a ship-to-shore airlift for injured survivors. They were snatched from a sea-hell when their super constellation airliner ditched in mid-Atlantic.
Seventeen of the 44 survivors aboard the Swiss rescue ...
Daily Mirror
Air Crash in Trincomalee
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1958-12-20
This is all that remained of the Royal Ceylon Air Force "Dove" which crashed at China Bay Airport on Thursday, killing all six occupants.—(Castle Studio, Trincomalee).
Castle Studio
Air Crash
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1978-12-5
The Times of Ceylon Press
Wreckage of the Czechoslovak Ilyushin Airliner
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1961-4-6
Part of the burned out wreckage of the Czechoslovak Ilyushin airliner which crashed in flames 30 miles North of Nuremberg recently. The Russian-built aircraft was flying from Zurich to Prague. Fifty-two bodies were recovered.—(United Press).
United Press Photos
United Airlines Plane Crash
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- Unidad documental simple
- 1960-11-23
Firemen battling with the flames caused by the DC 8 jet airliner of United Airlines, which crashed into a busy part of Brooklyn last Friday after colliding over New York with a TWA Constellation. The other plane came down in the water at Staten Is...
Central Press Photos Ltd.