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Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Twenty-three people, 18 of them passengers, lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting the land at Kastrup airport on its journey to Moscow. Our Keystone photo shows the tail of the wrecked aircraft b...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen
Thwenty-three people lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting a power station chimney. The machine was about to land at Kastrup Airport on way from Moscow. Picture shows ambulances and frogmen waiti...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Sabena Boeing 707 Airplane Crash
One of the engines of the Sabena Boeing 707 jet airliner which crashed just outside Brussels international airport recently, lying buried in the earth at the spot where a farm-worker was killed when the plane descended into the field in which he w...
United Press Photos
Sabena Boeing 707 Airplane Crash
The wreckage of the Sabena Airlines' Boeing 707 jetliner which crashed recently covering a wooded field on the outskirts of Brussels Airport. Seventy three people died in the crash, including all 18 members of the U. S. Figure skating team, on the...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Seventy Nine Die as Crash Planes Fall on City
Seventy-nine people lost their lives when a Viscount airliner and a cargo plane crashed in Ankara (Turkey) in mid-air recently. Seventeen people died in the crash, the rest of the victims were hit by flying wreckage. Thirty-six shops and other bui...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Socialist Chief in Helicopter Crash
Huge crowd gather around the wreckage of a light helicopter carring Socialist Party Chairman Mosaburu Suzuki which crashed in Maebashi city May 30. The Socialist leader, pilot and co-pilot of the 'copter were injured in the aerial mishap. Suzuki w...
Pan-Asia Photos
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
The three survivors of the Air India plane which crashed in the South China Sea, seen in an ambulance on their arrival in Singapore aboard the British frigate, Dampier. Left to right: Engineer A. S. Karnik; Flight Navigator J. C. Patak and Co-pilo...
United Press Photos
Survivors of Icelandic Air Crash
Some of the lucky ones to survive the plane crash at Andiambalama on Wednesday night were rushed to Colombo. They are being attended to at the Accident Service. Among those who miraculously escaped death were the two Icelandic Air Hostesses (top r...
The Times of Ceylon Press