The C130 was more than 5 years ago. I think it was VMC, a practice special forces equipment drop for a similar position in Bosnia, during the war there. My memory is that, (very unusually), the accident report did not blame the pilots, but the performance data they were using.
A local pilot C152 accident on Liathach could have been turbulence/downdraft - they were far too high to be scud running. He was flying a hired aircraft, with much a poorer climb rate compared to his own aircraft, which was in maintenance.
The Mail plane southbound at night from Inverness hit the hill just south of the airfield (Carn nan Tri Tigharnan?), over 20 years ago. It took a days to find it.
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