The 1938 Jersey Airport disaster Catastrophe occurred Presence 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 Destroying in the parish of Saint Brélade , 500 yards east of Jersey Airport , killing Killing the pilot and all twelve passengers on board as well as farm hand Edmund Le Cornu , who was working Being_in_operation on the ground .