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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.
The Plane Crash in Lincolnshire, 1962 October
The wrck of the aircraft in which Cranwell cadet B. S. Perera of the Royal Ceylon Air Force crashed in Lincolnshire recently when coming in to land from a night-flying exercise.—("Lincoln Echo", Lincoln)
Lankadeepa
This picture of Mr. Dudley Ranabahu, Air Ceylon pilot was taken last night by a "Mirror" cameraman at the Lunawa Hospital. Besides him is his wife, who had rushed on hearing that the plane had crashed.
Daily Mirror
Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Path to Disaster for Air India's Flight
The Path to disaster for Air India's flight 101 from Bombay as part of Mont Blanc was obscured by cloud (shown lightly in the diagram.)
The Times of Ceylon Press
A BACIII airliner — Britain's newest aircraft — took off from Wisley, Surrey recently on a circular trip during which more tests were to be made on aerodynamics and ended in disaster when it lost height rapidly and plunged into this field at Stone...
Daily Mirror
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.
A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
Planet News Ltd.
Nicosia, Cyprus: A lightning-struck Britannia Airliner plunged into a hill near here today, killing 124 persons. This picture shows rescue workers carrying a stretcher away from the scene after the plane crashed in lashing rain and hail into the h...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.