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Bristol Beaufort Mk.I L4479 of No.5 (C)OTU, crashed on Goat Fell on the 30th August 1942
Louis Orlin Glay
Flight Sergeant RCAF
Pilot
Killed
John Orville MacLean
Flight Sergeant RCAF
Observer
Killed
John William Leyland
Flight Sergeant RCAF
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Killed
The crew of the aircraft were on a training flight from RAF Turnberry to the South of Ayr on the evening of the 30th August 1942. An hour and forty five minutes into the flight at about 22:20 the aircraft struck the southern spur of Goat Fell approximately half way down the mountain around South Slabs where it was destroyed by a fierce fire.
A photo taken in less than perfect weather conditions at the crash site of L4479 showing a large scar where the aircraft burned out.This photograph was taken on a second visit to the crash site 14 years after the one shown above. It is looking across Glen Rosa with Beinn Nuis, Beinn a’Chliabhain and Beinn Tarsuinn in the background.Looking up towards the summit of Goat Fell from the lower part of the crash site with some of the remaining wreckage in the foreground.
This section of spar is one of the larger items left, there are two other sections of spar like this lower down the mountain.The view from the crash site towards the south, with Holy Isle in Lamlash Bay in the distance.
The three crew members were all buried at Dunure Cemetery to the south of Ayr.
