Worst Air Disaster

Edward S. Worth

Associated Press

Searchers dig through the smouldering wreckage of what is perhaps Britain's worst disaster during an era of peace. Thirty-seven persons were killed in the mid-air crash between a Royal Air Force plane and a Sweedish DC6 airliner. Sir. Edward Gent, Governor of Malaya, was among those who died in the July 4 tragedy.

Edward S. Worth, "Worst Air Disaster," in POYi Archive, Item #297, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/297 (accessed November 23, 2024).