Hawker Sea Hawk F.G.A. Mk.4 WV845 of the A.W.T.F Royal Navy, flew into Creag an Lochain Deirg near Brora on the 4th September 1957.
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Pilot |
Killed |
The aircraft, based at R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth, had been on an rocket firing exercise at Tain when it suffered a "hangup" the aircraft left the range to clear the hang up and shortly after flew into high ground.
The live firing range at
Tain is still in use today. When we visited this crash site of WV845 Tornados from Lossiemouth were dropping live ordnance at the range , the detonation of which
could be heard above Brora roughly 15 miles to the north.
Most of the remaining wreckage from the aircraft is concentrated into a small collection seen in the photo above. It took a while to find this aircraft due to the snow cover on the hill, though that should be expected when visiting Northern Scotland in early February.
A photo of myself examining a piece of skinning from the aircraft.
A general photo showing the site just before I left it, having put the parts back in the places I found them (but with snow removed).