Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 18:54:07 GMT 1
I came across this story yesterday when researching something else and rather like the Chipmunk story, I had never heard of it before. Briefly, a certain Peter Gibbs had chartered the aircraft from a person in Oban and flown it on Christmas Eve 1975 to Glenforsa.
I've put a link in below, which to the best of my knowledge, describes the situation accurately, but understandably it can only speculate on the outcome. The thing which surprises me most is that, on the face of it at least, little has been done by the authorities to get to the bottom of this. In 1975 we lived in a different world, but given how much was known and found about this according to the narrative, it seems odd that so few enquiries were undertaken. The fact that Gibbs went flying at night in a single-engined aircraft without (presumably) checking the weather - the nearest met office open would have been Glasgow - from an airfield which had little or no residual light, never mind the runway being unlit, apart from a couple of torches(!) seems highly suspicious to me.
fearoflanding.com/accidents/the-mysterious-disappearance-at-mull/