Great Mull Air Mystery

[1] Gibbs' uninjured but decomposed body was discovered, without the plane, on a hillside near the airfield four months later, but how and why he came to be there has never been established.

The orchestra was upset by this apparent slight to both them and the audience, but turned up nonetheless on time for an early rehearsal the next day.

When Karajan arrived late, Gibbs rebuked him directly, stating, "I did not spend four years of my life fighting bastards like you to be insulted before our own Allies as you did last evening."

However, that night during a concert, Karajan refused to go back on stage after the interval until a letter was signed stating that Gibbs be immediately sacked.

[2] He continued to fly in his civilian life and held a private pilot's licence with more than 2,000 hours' flight experience.

[3] On Saturday 20 December 1975 Gibbs travelled via ferry to the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, as he was interested in buying a hotel as an investment.

[4] Glenforsa Airfield was built by the Royal Engineers between May and August 1965 to act as the only fixed-wing air ambulance evacuation facility on Mull.

[7] On the morning of 24 December 1975, Gibbs and Grainger flew from Mull to Broadford on the Isle of Skye to spend the day viewing properties.

Others observed that Gibbs appeared to have spent an unusually long time warming up the plane's engine.

[1] Hotel guests realised that Gibbs was intent on making a circuit and rushed upstairs to the bar to watch the landing as the airfield was almost never used at night.

[8] The guests turned the lights off in the bar to reduce internal reflections on the glass and get better view of the night flight.

[2] Gibbs' body was found lying across a fallen larch tree 400 feet (120 metres) up the hillside, not far from the road.

[3] HMS Pembroke used a remote underwater camera to take pictures of the wreckage which appeared to be of a small plane with one wing still attached, possibly Gibbs' Cessna.