Miscellaneous Images

This gallery contains images that just didn’t fit the other galleries. It also contains some recent images.

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Rescue basket.
This is a picture of a rescue seat.
Tawa Irasquin
This picture was taken at the press conference that was given the day the two ALM stewards returned to Curaçao. (Photo courtesy Alex Alberto.)
Author Emilio Corsetti, Balsey, and Tito during a radio show on the island of Curacao.
The rescue sling was one of three methods used in rescuing passengers. This picture shows the correct way to use the sling.
This is the type of life vest used by survivors.
Ingrid in an ONA print advertisement.
This picture gives you some idea of just how small the aircraft was.
A cockpit similar to the plane that ditched.
Edith and Balsey.
Tito Cordeiro and Balsey DeWitt. This picture was taken at the ALM exhibition in Curacao. It was the first time the two men had met since the accident. (Photo Michel Drenthe)
St. Maarten airport. This is the same view the crew would have had in better weather. The runway in this picture is several thousand feet longer than it was in 1970.
A picture of ONA management. Balsey is on the left.