Date:	Monday 31 January 1938
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hart
Owner/operator:	5 E&RFTS RAF
Registration:	K4434
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hanworth Aerodrome, Hanworth, Middlesex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Hanworth Aerodrome, Hanworth, Middlesex
Destination airport:	Hanworth Aerodrome, Middlesex

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) 31.1.38 Destroyed in collision when struck by landing Hawker Hart K4434, while G-AEBI was taxying, preparing to take off, at Hanworth Aerodrome, Hanworth, Middlesex. According to one sources (see link #5):

"The two planes which crashed into each other (Blackburn B2 G-AEBI and Hawker Hart K4434 – 1st Feb 1938)

Two planes both belonging to the RAF Elementary Reserve Flying Training School caught fire when a landing Hawker Hart collided with a Blackburn B.2 on the ground. The young pilot of the Blackburn was trapped in his burning machine and died. Kenneth Wild was aged just 17 and had only joined the RAF 14 days earlier. He was on his first flight. Flying Officer Lawrence Chiswell, the pilot of the Hawker, received burns and was detained in hospital".

Of the two crew (one in each aircraft), one was killed, one was injured:

Kenneth Jonathan Wild (pilot of G-AEBI, age 18) killed
Flying Officer Lawrence Edward Chiswell (Pilot of Hart K4434) injured

1. The Daily Herald 1st February 1938 (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
2. The K File - The RAF of the 1930s (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1976)
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
5. https://habitatsandheritage.org.uk/blog/air-crashes-at-hanworth-aerodrome/
6. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ae
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Air_Park

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Nov-2022 18:04	Dr. John Smith	Added
18-Nov-2022 18:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, ]