MPX5098714: Lord Alfred Robens, took delivery of a De Havilland Dove Executive Aircraft on behalf of the Coal Board at Hartfield today. The plane was handed over by Mr. S. Wheate, a director of De Havilland's. The Coal Board's pilot, Captain Basil Allum, took off with Lord Robens and four Coal Board officials on the aircraft's first flight to the Midlands. Lady Eve Robens saw the party off, March 1962 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098793: The wreckage of a fully-laden passenger Viscount aeroplane after it had overshot the runway at Rochford Airport and ended tail up on the railway line which runs alongside the airport. Firemen and emergency services clear the way for passengers to exit the plane. October 1960 / Bridgeman Images