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Sunday, 24 February 2019

Hawker Hunter TMk.7 G-BTYL , ex RAF XL595 .Brusten croft moor peak district

 The second site of my peaks visit was further up the lonely Brusten croft moor this is the final resting place of Hawker Hunter TMk.7 G-BTYL , ex RAF XL595 .
The plane flown by W.Cubitt on a flight from RAF Coltishall to Warton airfield on the 11,June,1993 for the 40th anniversary of the Hunter, weather on this day was poor to bad and Mr Cubitt had checked in numerous times to see if conditions maybe improving . later with time pressing the pilot decided to fly his route maybe hoping to find clear or a broken cloud route over the hills .
Sadly the plane encountering very bad weather fell into a dive above the high ground of Broomhead moor impacting at 400+knots into the banks of a stream totally disintegrating and leaving a large crater Mr Cubitt was sadly lost with the plane




 On the moors today the crater is easily seen from some distance away due to the shining aluminum bits closer the PSP planking still sticking out of the site is very visible the ground around the crater is still littered with fragments but the most troubling when sat at the edge with Tricia part of a shoe with some other parts , everything was left as found


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