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Walkers passing an old plane wreck, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a group of walkers passing the remains of an old plane wreck

A picture from an Islay walking week a few years ago, in the hills above Castlehill. I’m not sure which one, but these are the remains of one of the planes which sadly crashed in the hills many years ago (in the 1940s I believe).

Walkers and a crashed plane’s engine, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a group of hillwalkers standing around the engine of a crashed planeOver the decades (mostly in the 40s and 50s) unfortunately a few planes crashed in the hills in the south of Islay. This is the engine of one of them, we visited it during a WalkIslay walk a few years back.