12th September 1934
Jersey Airways plane crashes in a field
A Jersey Airways plane came down in a field. It was the airline’s fifth accident in a month, although while most of the others, including a plane driven into the sea and another into a wall, had happened in Jersey, this one occurred after take-off from Heston.
In this instance, an engine on the Dragon biplane cut out as it cleared the airport boundary at around 100ft and the aircraft was badly damaged upon impact. The undercarriage was smashed and the nose and wing crumpled. There were no passengers aboard and the pilot escaped with minor injuries.
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Other events that occured in September
“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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Inquest launched into another Jersey railway death
- Philip Pinel was crushed by a train’s axle box, which was still smeared with his blood when police arrived at the scene.
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The mail packet ‘Express’ is wrecked
- The Express mail packet hit rocks close to La Corbiere on a journey from Weymouth to Jersey via Guernsey.
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Local priests campaign to declare a man insane
- Local priests campaigned for a Jersey man to be declared insane so that he would not be executed for killing his wife.
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