The Exhall mid-air collision happened on Saturday 19 February 1949 over the village of Exhall when a British European Airways Douglas DC-3 / Douglas Dakota collided in clear weather with a Royal Air Force Avro Anson T21.

2 Air Navigation School on a cross-country training exercise from RAF Middleton St.

[2] The two aircraft collided at 4,500 feet (1,400 m) near the village of Exhall, near Coventry in Warwickshire.

[1][2] The wreckage fell near an old peoples' home, the Exhall Lodge Hospital.

[2] Although the weather at the time of the crash was clear,[4] the accident investigation concluded that the crew of neither aircraft saw each other, possibly due to glare from the sun, and blamed the accident on a failure on the part of both captains to keep a proper look-out for other aircraft.