Sergeant- '1186117' - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 58 OTU RAF Grangemouth.
"On 4th September 1941 Spitfire R6780., of 58 OTU at RAF Grangemouth, was being flown by Sergeant D.C. Johnston a pilot of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, above Callander on a training flight. A witness, William McFarlane, who was playing with his brother in a nearby field, remembers seeing the aircraft "flying over Callander, going back and forward and was very low". On this fateful day however "it just seemed to loop-the-loop, the engine cut out and it came down". The aircraft crashed into the car park between what was then the Bridge End House Hotel and nearby houses".
"On 4th September 1941 Spitfire R6780., of 58 OTU at RAF Grangemouth, was being flown by Sergeant D.C. Johnston a pilot of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, above Callander on a training flight. A witness, William McFarlane, who was playing with his brother in a nearby field, remembers seeing the aircraft "flying over Callander, going back and forward and was very low". On this fateful day however "it just seemed to loop-the-loop, the engine cut out and it came down". The aircraft crashed into the car park between what was then the Bridge End House Hotel and nearby houses".
Sergeant- '1186117' - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 58 OTU RAF Grangemouth.
"On 4th September 1941 Spitfire R6780., of 58 OTU at RAF Grangemouth, was being flown by Sergeant D.C. Johnston a pilot of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, above Callander on a training flight. A witness, William McFarlane, who was playing with his brother in a nearby field, remembers seeing the aircraft "flying over Callander, going back and forward and was very low". On this fateful day however "it just seemed to loop-the-loop, the engine cut out and it came down". The aircraft crashed into the car park between what was then the Bridge End House Hotel and nearby houses".
"On 4th September 1941 Spitfire R6780., of 58 OTU at RAF Grangemouth, was being flown by Sergeant D.C. Johnston a pilot of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, above Callander on a training flight. A witness, William McFarlane, who was playing with his brother in a nearby field, remembers seeing the aircraft "flying over Callander, going back and forward and was very low". On this fateful day however "it just seemed to loop-the-loop, the engine cut out and it came down". The aircraft crashed into the car park between what was then the Bridge End House Hotel and nearby houses".
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