WRECKAGE OF AIRCRAFT FOUND AND LANDED Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea two miles north-north-east of the coastguard look-out at Lossiemouth.

A helicopter had been summoned, and at 3.5 the life-boat Laura Moncur left her moorings. There was a light variable breeze and a smooth sea, and it was high water. On reaching the position, the helicopter asked the life-boat to go to Lossiemouth to pick up a marker buoy and moorings, but as she was entering harbour the life-boat met the seine-net boat Argosy, which was on her way to drop the marker buoy. The life-boat returned to the position and was then asked by the helicopter to pick up a piece of the wrecked aircraft, which was two miles to the south-east. Nothing more was found, and the life-boat landed the wreckage at Lossiemouth and reached her station at 6.20..