Peak District Air Accident Research

General Dynamics F-111E 68-0003 of the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing crashed on Craignaw, Geln Trool near Newton Stewart on the 19th December 1979.

The crew were on a training flight from Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire when the aircraft impacted a rocky outcrop on the south western side of Craignaw above Loch Neldricken at high speed and was completely destroyed.

Overlooking the crash site (below and the right of this photo) it this cairn with a memorial plaque, and also the largest remaining item of wreckage.

A closer view of the plaque.

Looking from the cairn the crash site is this obvious scar blasted into the outcrops.

Stood in the impact scar, small fragments of the aircraft a visible towards the bottom of the photograph.

Small fragments of metal litter the area around the impact point.

Looking back up hill into the scar, from here is blends fairly well with the other outcrops.

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