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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.
The three crew members were all buried at Dunure Cemetery to the south of Ayr.