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MPX5128863: On the night of 16/17 April, the R33 was ripped from her mooring on the mast at Pulham, Suffolk during a gale by a strong gust of wind, and drifted away with only a small "anchor-watch" crew onboard. Her nose partially collapsed and the first gas cell deflated left her low in the bow. Wind and rain blowing into the damaged bow section added to her tilt. The crew on board started the engines gaining a little height and rigged a cover for the bow section, but the prevailing winds blew R33 over the North Sea. The crew were able to gain control of the airship over the Dutch coast and slowly made their way back to Pulham. Our Picture Shows: Locals helping pull the damaged airship R33 to her shed after returning to Pulham following her mishap, 18th April 1925 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128892: Two men appeared on remand at Bow Street court in connection with alleged offences outside the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane London involving Mr Jomo Kenyatta, the prime minister of Kenya. Left to Right July t Martin Webster and John Tyndall arriving at Bow Street, 28th July 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128902: RAF Mountain Rescue and Police search for the wreckage of a crashed light aircraft. The wreckage of a war lies beneath the soft earth of the Cheviot slopes. Consciously ignored by the censored Press of World War Two dozens of planes plunged to their destruction and sank into bogs. More than 25 - both Allied and German - are beneath the marshy soil and their names bear out the aggression of war: Spitfire, Flying Fortress, Swordfish... But when the war ended, the accidents stopped. In the 30 years since the war there had only been two air crashes over the misty hills, this Tuesday's nosedive into Hedgehope Hill was one of them. But rumours persist about the strange weather conditions and freak disturbances between St Abb's Head, where the men went off course and the Cheviots. Does the North have a Bermuda Triangle of its own ? As Department of Trade Inspectors stood by in Wooler to begin examining the Piper Cherokee wreckage, experts answered unequivocally: No ! The aircraft, that was flying from Edinburgh to Sunderland and crashed on the 2,348 ft. Hedgehope Hill is pictured, 14/02/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128905: A BOAC Boeing 707 airliner bound for Sydney and Auckland with 131 passengers aboard had to return to Heathrow airport shortly after take off when one of it engines caught fire. The aircraft call sign Whisky Echo crashed with its wing ablaze on runway two. An eye witness said he saw about 50 people jump out of the plane seconds after it crashed. "they were running and jumping" from the aircraft. Our Picture Shows: The burning plane immediately after the crash at Heathrow Airport, April 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128910: A BOAC Boeing 707 airliner bound for Sydney and Auckland with 131 passengers aboard had to return to Heathrow airport shortly after take off when one of it engines caught fire. The aircraft call sign Whisky Echo crashed with its wing ablaze on runway two. An eye witness said he saw about 50 people jump out of the plane seconds after it crashed. "they were running and jumping" from the aircraft. Our Picture Shows: The burning plane immediately after the crash at Heathrow Airport, April 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128914: A BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident airliner, operating as a British European Airways (BEA) scheduled commercial passenger flight from London Heathrow Airport to Brussels, crashed near the town of Staines on Sunday, 18 June 1972, less than three minutes after take-off. All 118 persons on board were killed. The accident became known as the Staines disaster, and was the worst air disaster in Britain until the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, 18/06/1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images