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An American airliner, converted for the trip to an Air Ambulance, touched down at London airport, bringing home injured 64-year-old Miss Ruth Holden, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Holidaying in California, she was called home to be with her sister, Mrs E.Jones, seriously ill in Kelvedon, Essex. Miss Holden fell 10 feet when collecting her luggage at Newfoundland and her back was badly injured. Seven seats were taken from the aircraft and a mattress installed so that must Holden could be transported home..Pictures: Miss Ruth Holden is carried on a stretcher from the aircraft to a waiting ambulance at London airport..25 November 1946 (KEYSTONE/United Archives / TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk)