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
Men are killed by an exploding threshing machine
- Two French workers were killed in Jersey when the boiler of William Lane’s steam-powered thrashing machine exploded.
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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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Jersey’s Victoria College opens for the first time
- Named in honour of Queen Victoria to commemorate her 1846 visit to Jersey, work on Victoria College was completed with its opening in 1852
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A young girl is stabbed to death
- A young girl was stabbed to death in Jersey in September 1965, and her body left to be discovered in a field.
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