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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...
A. Senadheera
"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.
"Spider's Web" Saves British Seahawk Fighter
This dramatic picture — taken during an actual emergency landing on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean — shows how a nylon elastic barrier, aptly name the "Spider's Web", saved a British Seahawk jet fighter that was unable to lower its arres...
Central Office of Information, London
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
88 Britons Die in British Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: The tail section of the crashed British DC-4 airliner some 200 metres from the point of impact following last night's crush into a mountain near here. All 88 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. All were British. The passeng...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
88 Britons Die in Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: Wreckage of the British DC-4 airliner lies on the mountainside after crashing into a mountain near Perpignan Airport lat last night. 88 Britons aboard the airliner were killed. There were no survivors. The passengers were on the...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
The wreckage of the plane that crashed on 11th, 33 miles from Agra, India, which killed eighteen including two Sri Lankan students. (A picture showing the hand-over of the students' remains is on page 7). Bottom text: Some of the people who gathe...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The wreckage of the night mall Viscount which crashed near Agra on Wednesday is strewn over a wide area and the engines created a big crater in the bajra fields...
The Times of Ceylon Press
