Piper Saratoga G-BNJS prior to its loss in the Lake District.
The aircraft crashed on the 29th November 1987 close to the summit of Bowfell killing the pilot. The wreckage was not found
for some months and the pilots body removed from the crash site. As ever, to anyone trying to locate crash sites shown on this
website, please treat them with respect; this incident happened less than twenty years ago and it is well within living memory.
The write-up on this incident is left brief. Founder and fellow ACIA member Mr Jim Corbett was contacted by the son of the pilot who was sadly killed in this
incident with an aim to locating the site and helping him make a visit to the crash site. Being fairly clued up on the Lake District I took
up the challenge of locating the site, which was done in May 2007. I look forward to assisting if required in the future visit by the pilots family.
To add photographs of the crash site before this visit would seem and improper thing to do on my part.
The aircraft was built in 1981.
Pilot - Mr Arthur R Hiscox, killed.
A cover plate from the aircrafts Lycoming engine.
The view from the crash site.
My thanks to Jim Corbett, Alan Clark, Mark Sheldon and Doug Brown for their input on this incident.