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"Scimitar" Crashes in the English Channel
Commander J. D. Russell, Fleet Air Arm, piloting a "Scimitar" supersonic-fighter crashed to his death after making a landing on the aircraft-carrier "Victorious" in the English Channel. The aircraft had made a perfect deck landing, when the "arres...
Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.
The bodies of 147 air crash victims wrapped in cloth and mats lying in a Sri Lanka Air Force hangar.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Crash victims scattered near the wreckage a short while after the disaster.
The Times of Ceylon Press
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
Police clearing bodies from the wreckage at Katunayake.
The Times of Ceylon Press
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.
Viking Airliner Crashed into Houses
Eight people including the crew of three and a four weeks old baby lost their lives when a Viking Airliner crashed into houses in Kelvin Gardens, Southall, recently. The Rev. Richard Hetherington carrying the pathetic bundle—containing the body of...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.