On the 13th February 1942 the crew of this aircraft set out from Lossiemouth for a night cross-country training flight over Northern Scotland. To the west of Inverness the aircraft suffered an engine failure followed shortly afterwards by the propeller on the engine detaching. Being unable to maintain height on one engine the crew baled out. The aircraft crashed a short time later in Glen Affric. From the impact scar left by the crash the aircraft would suggest it had come in from the south.
Pilot - Sgt Clifford Handley RAFVR (1100624), of Pitsmoor, Sheffield.
Rest of crew - Names unknown.
Clifford Handley would be killed serving in Egypt less than six months later with 148 Squadron on 7th July 1942 when Wellington DV603 crashed on the edge of the Great Bitter Lake and exploded. He was twenty five years old and is buried in Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt.
Myself and Will Lund located the site in August 2006, fair remains of the aircraft are still to be found on the lower slopes of Mullach Fraoch-choire.
