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The Great Mull Air Mystery

The Great Mull Air Mystery

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{detailed description}`The Great Mull Air Mystery' is about a remarkable man called Norman Peter Gibbs who probably died on his 55th birthday in the early hours of Christmas Morning, 1975.
With a lady companion he was spending a few days on the remote Hebridean Island of Mull. Quite by chance he learned that there was a light aircraft for hire at an airfield near Oban on the mainland.
On Christmas Eve at about half past nine at night he took off alone in a tiny Cessna 150, G-AVTN, from the only airfield on Mull at Glenforsa.
He never returned. Four months later his body was found by a shepherd 400 feet up a hill only one mile from the airstrip beside the Glenforsa Hotel where he had been staying.
Two pathologists who performed an autopsy stated that he had died of exposure. The aircraft itself has never been recovered despite two massive searches by hundreds of trained men, local volunteers and RAF and Navy helicopters.
Even more remarkably, forensic tests showed that he had not been immersed in salt-water - no traces of sodium chloride, whatsoever, were found in his clothing, watch, or flying boots.
In an attempt to discover what prompted a vastly experienced former RAF fighter pilot to embark upon such a hazardous, and quite unnecessary, flight in mid-winter, Scott MacAdam examines all the available evidence and discusses some of the incredible theories and speculations surrounding this baffling mystery.

Scott Macadam is the pen name of David Howitt who witnessed the events described.

Very scarce copy.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Scott Macadam
published by Staffa Press 1985 1st edn. 36pp illustrated 15x21 stapled booklet, card covers
{condition}very good
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