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The Great Mull Air Mystery

The Great Mull Air Mystery

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On Christmas Eve, 24 December 1975, concert violinist Peter Gibbs
was just finishing dinner with his girlfriend at the Glenforsa
Hotel on the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The pair
had traveled to this island in the Inner Hebrides four days
earlier to look for hotels to purchase for his property
investment company. Gibbs had rented an airplane to island hop
during their holiday to use in his search, and the Glenforsa,
with its adjacent airstrip, would serve as their base camp. But
after dinner, Gibbs did something most of us would find odd,
perhaps not for the bold World War II RAF Spitfire veteran
fighter pilot; he decided to take a solo plane flight to
demonstrate that night flights to the island were possible. It
was supposed to be a 10-minute joyride while Gibbs' girlfriend,
Felicity Grainger, waited on the unlit grass runway with two
flashlights to guide him back in. No one would see Gibbs' Cessna
F150H ever again. But, four months later, Gibbs' body would be
found 400 feet up a rocky hillside and splayed over a fallen
tree. Usually, finding the missing person in a disappearance
means "case closed," but not in this case. The condition and
location of Gibbs' remains would generate many more questions
than answers. He didn't seem to suffer injuries consistent with
falling or jumping while airborne. Nor was it likely that he
would've made the arduous hike to that location after ditching in
the freezing ocean. To add to the enigma, Gibbs appeared in an
area thoroughly searched immediately following his disappearance
and routinely patrolled by local shepherds. These baffling clues
combine into what has become known as "The Great Mull Air
Mystery."

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