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Air Lanka Flight 512; B. Bandaranaike Airport attack This page was last edited on 3 February 2021, at 22:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Air Ceylon was the former flag carrier airline of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The airline discontinued flights to Europe in early 1978 and finally ceased all local services on 31 August 1979, when it was replaced by Air Lanka. Air Lanka was later rebranded to SriLankan Airlines. [2]
An Air Lanka Boeing 747-200B at London Gatwick Airport in 1984 An Air Lanka Lockheed L-1011 TriStar at Zurich Airport in 1998. In 1979, after the removal of airline manager Nimesh Fernando, Sri Lanka's president Jayawardene initially did not interfere after entrusting the airline to Captain Rakitha Wickramanayake and the board of directors consisting of industry officials and managers.
British Airways Flight 476 collided with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 in mid-air near Zagreb, killing all 176 people on board both aircraft and another on the ground. Aviogenex Flight 130, as the aircraft was approaching Rijeka Airport, the aircraft then entered into a gradually steeping angle of descent. Due to an optical illusion, the ...
April 12, 1971, a Jet Provost of the Royal Ceylon Air Force crashed in Trincomalee killing its pilot. [6] [4]November 15, 1978, the Icelandic Airlines Flight 001 a Douglas DC-8 crash on approach to Colombo International Airport, killed 8 of the 13 Icelandic crew members, 5 reserve crew members and 170 (mostly Indonesian) out of a total of 262 passengers and crew.
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These photos from our archives show the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald, 59 years ago this week. JFK assassination: Photos from Star ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...