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Avro Anson Mk.I DJ106 of No.19 Operational Training Unit crashed on Ben MacDui in the Cairngorm Mountains on the 21st August 1942
John Llewelyn
Sergeant
Pilot
Killed
William Gilmour
Pilot Officer RCAF
Observer
Killed
Geoffrey Fillingham
Flight Sergeant
Observer
Killed
John Beaton Robertson
Sergeant
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Killed
Kenneth Edmondson Carruthers
Flight Sergeant
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Killed
The crew of DJ106 was on a day time cross country navigation flight from RAF Kinloss. It was while returning to base that the aircraft flew into the western side of Ben MacDui, the second highest mountain in the British Isles. The aircraft was last reported as being south west of Dunkeld by the Royal Observer Corps heading in a northerly direction at about 5,000 feet, the weather at the time was described as being cloudy, particularly over the mountains. It would appear that the aircraft was flying about 2.5 miles west of the direct track from its last reported position and Kinloss when it struck the western most ridge of the mountain at 4,000 feet and disintegrated northwards towards Allt a Choire Mhoir.