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
Water Survival Training
Gemini-8 Co-pilot David Scott is hoisted out of the water on a helicopter rescue seat during water survival training.
The Times of Ceylon Press
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.
"'Eagle' Airborne Again"
'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...
A. Senadheera
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.
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