It may be hair of the dog for the pilots of 43 Squadron but in a grossly insensitive act, two F3 Tornados roared up Loch Fyne at 14.54, one of them frighteningly low.

It is exactly a week since a Tornado crashed on Beinn Fidleir at the side of A83 in Glen Kinglas below the Rest and Be Thankful pass into Mid Argyll. Both aircrew were killed: pilot – 27 year-old Flt Lt Kenneth Thompson and weapons system control officer – 43 yar-old Flt Lt Nigel Morton.

Much of this area – Loch Fyne and Cairndow,  Loch Long and Arrochar, had been alarmed that morning with the training flight’s unusually low flying.

Everyone knows how that flight ended for one of those aircraft. Hearing today’s planes scream over the rooftops of lochside villages before taking the glen up to Inveraray was an abuse folk could have done without.

There wre always going to be more training flights in the area but this was much too soon.

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