Ex PH-TEA of KLM. The aircraft was only with Swissair for seven months, ditching off Folkestone on 19 June 1954 due to fuel exhaustion, with the pilots blamed for negligence. Three occupants drowned. Here the aircraft name Ticino is not applied yet. The christening took place in March 1954. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Photo date given as 8 December 1948 but that might be mistaken as that was also the date PH-TEA was registered. Was to become PH-CEA but sold to Swissair instead in November 1953 as HB-IRW. Ditched near Folkestone on 19 June 1954. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

"Adriaen van Ostade" arrives from Dublin on the through schedule to Schiphol. Visible is the 1938-built Chance Brothers octagonal floodlight, one of three in use until early wartime. The three sides facing the grass landing area were clear glazed. Two of the floodlights would be illuminated for night landings. They were dismantled in the early 1950s.

Swissair's "Ticino" on finals to Runway 06 inbound from Zurich. Previously with KLM as PH-TEA, this aircraft crashed six days later in the English Channel, six miles off Folkestone (Kent), when it ran out of fuel.