Plane Crashed in Katunayake
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
Mourning the deceased from the air crash.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Surviving Super Constellation Crash
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
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
Wreckage of the Czechoslovak Ilyushin Airliner
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
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.