4th September 1934
Jersey Airways suffers fourth mishap in 11 days
Having seen one aircraft overcome by waves and another driven into a wall, killing a boy in the process, Jersey Airways saw another of its aircraft damaged when it swerved violently while taxiing to its take-off position. It lost two tyres and the associated wheel spats in the incident. The tide was on its way in at the time and the plane had to be towed to a safer position: it wasn’t going anywhere.
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Other events that occured in September
Death of the Jersey-born ‘it’ girl
- Elinor Glyn was the original ‘it’ girl. She was born Elinor Sutherland in St Helier, and had a successful Hollywood scriptwriting career.
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The BBC broadcasts first edition of Spotlight
- The launch of Spotlight, the BBC’s local news bulletin for the Channel Islands, was more of a name change than anything else.
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“Let ’em starve,” says Churchill
- By the late summer of 1944, the war had turned against Germany and things were getting very uncomfortable in Jersey, Guernsey and Sark.
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The first meeting of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society
- The Society set out to promote modern farming ideas, advance the cause of agriculture, provide better housing for farmers.
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