The plate showed signs of being undisturbed for many years most likely as it was a very long way from the actual crash site, it was returned to it's hiding place to hopefully stay
Monday 24 April 2017
Hurricane Mk1 P3385 , Allt Fawr, Blaenau Ffestiniog
Nice day out high in the mountains By Blaenau Ffestiniog with Jackie and
the trolls to see what we could find at 2 new refs [nowt hohum ] but during the climb by blind luck we stumbled on the pilots headrest Armour from Hurricane MK1 P3385 from
the MSFU ,Merchant service fighter unit based at Speke
Liverpool which hit Allt Fawr in poor weather on the 9th August 1942 on a flight to R.A.F .Valley for a weeks gunnery course after take off the flight of 2 entered heavy cloud a break in the cloud over the river at Conway allowed the second aircraft piloted by P/O Peter Riddoch to backtrack to safety Riddoch tried desperately to raise his leader but his RT had failed and after attempts at visual signals had to break off and hope his efforts worked tragically they did not , pilot Officer Robert Bruce McIntyre RCAF died shortly after on the 2.000ft peak of Allt Fawr the crash heard only by 17 year old Maelor Hughes who found the broken fighter shortly after .
The plate showed signs of being undisturbed for many years most likely as it was a very long way from the actual crash site, it was returned to it's hiding place to hopefully stay
The plate showed signs of being undisturbed for many years most likely as it was a very long way from the actual crash site, it was returned to it's hiding place to hopefully stay
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