LB-30A Liberator AM261

Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on the 10th August 1941

Crew / Passengers	Rank - If Applicable	Service	Position e.g. Pilot	Status
Ernest Robert Bristow White	Captain	B.O.A.C.	Pilot	Killed
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke	Captain	A.T.A.	Co-pilot	Killed
James Josiah Anderson	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Ralph Bruce Brammer	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
John Beatty Drake	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Daniel Joseph Duggan	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Henry Samuel Green	Radio Officer	B.O.A.C.	Passenger	Killed
George Thomas Harris	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Hoyt Ralph Judy	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Wilfrid Groves Kennedy	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Watt Miller King	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
George Laing	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
William Kenneth Marks	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Hugh Cameron McIntosh	Radio Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Albert Alexander Oliver	Radio Officer	A.T.A.	Passenger	Killed
George Herburt Powell	Radio Officer	A.T.A.	Passenger	Killed
John Evan Price	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Herbert David Rees	Radio Officer	A.T.A.	Passenger	Killed
Ernest George Reeves	Flight Engineer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
John James Rouleston	First Officer	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed
Jack Wixen	Captain	R.A.F.F.C.	Passenger	Killed

The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews onboard with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corperation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.

Above is an overview of the crash site very little is left of the aircraft now, in the gravel on the right of the photo are a few tiny burnt fragments.

Above are the largest remaining parts that I found from AM261, they were underneath a rock near the crash site.

All but one of the crew and passengers were buried on the island, the one who wasn't, Radio Officer Henry Green, was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.