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'Eagle' Airborne Again After 2-month repair at Katunayake A Cunard Eagle Air-ways four-engined D.C.-6 plane left Katunayake airport on Thursday morning after extensive repairs to its engines and undercarriage. This aircraft which was carrying a c...
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Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
Planet News 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.
Dakota Airliner Crashed in Spain
Thirty-two occupants, 29 of them students and three crew, lost their lives recently when a Dakota airliner chartered by the National Union of Students, crashed on the Montseny Mountains, 25 miles north of Barcelona. The students, most of them Brit...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Overshooting its runway owing to brake failure, this Canberra came to rest straddled across the road Two-way traffic was completely held up. The incident occurred on the main London-to-Portsmouth road at Wesley, Surrey.
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
Gatwick, Surrey: Police comb the disintegrated wreckage of an Afghanistan Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 airliner which crashed early this morning whilst attempting to land in thick ground fog at Gatwick airport. The airliner carrying 63 persons, shea...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two women were killed when a Victor Jet H-Bomber crashed on a farm-house at Stubton between Newark and Sleaford in Lincolnshire recently.
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Picture shows police and experts searching through a field in Duerrenaesch, Switzerland, in an effort to identify wreckage found after the crash of the Rome-bound Swiss Air Caraville jet recently. Eighty people aboard the airliner lost their lives...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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