article_snippet.sent: But when The couple failed to turn up at an island in the Inner Hebrides’s airstrip and radar contact could not be made with their private plane, a search party was scrambled.
article_snippet.sent: A Coastguard search and rescue helicopter, a Royal Navy helicopter from HMS Gannet and an air ambulance were all scrambled to make a search after radar contact with the plane was lost .
article_snippet.sent: Radar contact was lost at around 1.50pm as Radar contact travelled over the remote Beinn nan Lus area of Glen Kinglass.
article_snippet.sent: Coastguard and Royal Navy helicopters, as well as an air ambulance, were called, and found the wreckage at 8pm on the northern side of Glen Kinglass, above Loch Etive.
article_snippet.sent: Local aviation expert David Howitt said that the conditions were poor at the time, adding: ‘I have been taking weather readings here for 50 years, and on Saturday the weather was very, very dubious.
article_snippet.sent: There was some very poor visibility.
article_snippet.sent: Iain MacKinnon, part of the coastguard team that searched the area, said:
article_snippet.sent: At the loch surface it was almost perfect visibility, but in terms of using the rescue helicopters the rescue helicopters were very restricted.