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Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies

Jan. 01, 1953 - Bomber Tears Crater in the Road. Canberra Jet Crashes in Ball of Fire Ten minutes after taking off from Abington, Berks. on a training flight the crew of three of a Canberra Jet were killed on a ball-of-fire crash. The plane burst into flames nose-dived into the Old Bath Road at Twyford and tore a crater about 30ft. by 20ft. deep. Keystone Photo Shows: - Part of the crater big enough to take a bus after the crash of the Canberra Jet machine near Reading today

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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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