1938 Jersey Airport disaster

Aviation incident in Jersey, Channel Islands July 2014 July 2014 1938 Jersey Airport disaster 4 November 1938 Pilot error DH.86 Express G-ADVJ Bond Air Services.jpg 1.15 A De Havilland DH.86, similar to the aircraft involved Accident near Jersey Airport, Jersey St Catherine's Bay De Havilland D.H.86 Jersey Airways G-ACZN Jersey Airport Southampton 13 1 12 1 0 The 1938 Jersey Airport disaster occurred at 10:50am on Friday 4 November 1938 when the Jersey Airways de Havilland D.H.86 airliner St Catherine's Bay (G-ACZN) crashed in the parish of Saint Brelade, 500 yards east of Jersey Airport, killing the pilot and all twelve passengers on board, as well as farm hand Edmund Le Cornu, who was working on the ground.Air disaster inquest The Times 48148 10 November 1938 23 0140-0460 In terms of loss of life, it was the worst crash of a rigid aircraft on British territory to date and the second-worst overall crash of a British rigid aircraft after the crash of an Imperial Airways airliner in Belgium in 1933 (in which 15 people died). The airliner had just taken off from Jersey en route to Southampton. The sky was overcast, with a cloud base of 120–150 feet. The aircraft had been fully inspected and was not carrying a full load. The Air Ministry investigation concluded that the accident was due to pilot error. The pilot had made a climbing turn into the clouds and inadvertently allowed the aircraft to sideslip when he was still too close to the ground to avert disaster. The aircraft had exploded and several bodies had been thrown up to 40 feet away. Among the dead were the daughter, son-in-law and baby granddaughter of surveyor and aerial archaeology pioneer G. A. Beazeley.Obituary - Captain W. D. Swan The Times 48147 9 November 1938 16 0140-0460 Footnotes References "Jersey Air Disaster Inquest", The Times, 7 November 1938 "Crash that Caused 14 Deaths 'An Error of Airmanship'", The Times, 19 April 1939 From Sea Eagle to Flamingo: a history of Channel Island Airways, Neville Doyle, 1991 (Self Publishing Association) External links Details on PlaneCrashInfo.com 49 12 33.22 N 2 10 44.57 W type:event_scale:1000_region:JE title Category:Jersey Airways accidents and incidents Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1938 Category:Airliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot error Category:History of Jersey Category:Aviation in Jersey Category:St Brelade Category:1938 in Jersey Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in the Channel Islands Category:November 1938 in Europe Category:Disasters in Jersey