Qualla: Great Mull Air Mystery https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/great-mull-air-mystery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Great Mull Air Mystery https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery Great Mull Air Mystery: Introduction https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery/ Photo credit Arpingstone at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Peter Gibbs flipped the landing lights of his Cessna F150H off, then on, then off again. The witness, Howitt, was watching from a car parked beside Glenforsa's grass airstrip on the north coast of Mull. There were no runway lights. The night was moonless. It was Christmas Eve, 1975. Gibbs took off anyway, climbed into the dark above the airfield, and disappeared behind a line of trees. Howitt dipped the car's headlights toward the sea, hoping to catch a reflection. Nothing. The search that followed was described in newspapers as huge. It extended through the Christmas holiday and into the new year. Gibbs was not found. The plane was not found. Four months later, in April 1976, a hillside walker discovered a body. The body was Gibbs. The plane has never been satisfactorily explained.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/great-mull-air-mystery-wp/gf5c-great-mull-air-mystery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Great Mull Air Mystery: Glenforsa, Christmas Eve https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery/ Photo credit Arpingstone at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Glenforsa Airfield was built by the Royal Engineers between May and August 1965, the only fixed-wing air ambulance evacuation facility on Mull. The strip is grass, a single 780-metre run along the flat ground beside the Sound of Mull. In 1975 it had no runway lighting of any kind...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/great-mull-air-mystery-wp/gf5c-great-mull-air-mystery-glenforsa-christmas-eve.mp3 0:06 2 full Great Mull Air Mystery: Off, On, Off https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery/ Photo credit Arpingstone at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Witnesses described the landing-light sequence in detail. The plane was on the strip, engine running. The lights flicked off. Then on. Then off again. Gibbs lined up and took off into the dark, climbing over the airstrip and then beyond it. Howitt, watching from a parked car, saw...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/great-mull-air-mystery-wp/gf5c-great-mull-air-mystery-off-on-off.mp3 0:06 3 full Great Mull Air Mystery: April on the Hillside https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery/ Photo credit Arpingstone at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In April 1976, four months after the disappearance, a hillside walker found Gibbs's body on a slope near the airfield. The remains were heavily decomposed; the clothing was effectively all that was holding them together. The body lay facing due north, the orientation suggesting G...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/c/great-mull-air-mystery-wp/gf5c-great-mull-air-mystery-april-on-the-hillside.mp3 0:06 4 full Great Mull Air Mystery: The Plane on the Sea Bed https://qualla.com/great-mull-air-mystery/ Photo credit Arpingstone at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 2004, divers searching the sea bed of the Sound of Mull found the wreck of the Cessna F150H. The windscreen was missing. Both cabin doors were locked. No remains of any passenger or pilot were inside. The discovery added a new piece of evidence without resolving anything. If G...

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