Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies
1956 - Two die in airliner crash.: An R.A>F. man and a little girl were killed - and four injured when an airliner with 54 people aboard-crashed at Stansted Airport, Essex today. The four-engined York airliner was taking off with families and Servicemen for Cypm's and Irak when it plunged off the runway. Women with babies in their arms scrambled out as patrol gushed from the plane's shattered tanks. Dense petrol fumes turned the insed of the plane into a gas chamber. Firemen pumped oxygen into the wreckage to keep the trapped people alive. Photo shows an aerial picture after today's crash. The plane's skid marks from the runway to the spot where it crashed can be clearly seen. Fire engines, ambulances and rescue equipment are scattered round the wrecked aircraft - at Hansted Airport, Essex
