Vought Chesapeake AL941
This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
Image,FAA, original author unknown.
On 22nd July 1943 the crew of the Chesapeake were undertaking a training flight out of HMS Landrail at RNAS Machrihanish. The aircraft flew into low cloud and struck the side of Beinn Tarsuinn on the west side of Gleann Diomhan.
General Dynamics F-111 68-0008
Crashed on 15 May, 1973. A large bird, reported to be a Herring Gull, was ingested into the starboard engine causing it to catch fire. The crew ejected safely and the F-111 crashed into woodland near Glenreasdale. The woodland is now known as 'Aircraft Woods' by the locals.
This photo is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved!
Sketch made at the time of the crash showing
where all the wreckage ended up.
(courtesy of Alan Leishman)
Satellite image of Glenreasdale. The F111
crashed in the felled woods just left of centre.
The sketch superimposed over the satellite image.(Courtesy of Stuart Whittaker)