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Old 27th Jan 2015, 16:54
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I was having a look on the web for any details and just underneath Milltown on here it covers Kinloss, and this made me chortle

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Scotland, Grampian

The number of missions flown could not hide the fact that Kinloss suffered a high training accident rate.
68 accidents were registered in the first year of 19OTUs operations, with many deaths.
Many trainees ended up ditching in nearby Findhorn Bay which was a Catch 22 situation.
Ending up in the bay at low tide in a dinghy was useless, as the bay was a quagmire.
On high tide it could occasionally flood the airfield.
This led to the humourous situation that a crew that had landed thought they had accidentally overshot.
Before climbing in their dinghies they made a distress call.
Next thing they saw from their dinghies was firetrucks driving right up beside them.
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