Mull of Kintyre
Coordinates: 55 ° 18 ′ 39.6 " N , 5 ° 48 ′ 14.4" W.
The Mull of Kintyre ( Scottish Gaelic Maol Chinn Tìre , pronunciation : [ mɯːlˠ̪ çiɲˈtʲʰiːɾʲə ]; mull in Scotland for cape , promontory ; from Scottish Gaelic maol = "bald") is the cape closest to Ireland in the south of the Scottish peninsula of Kintyre west of Glasgow .
The southernmost point of the peninsula is called Rubha Chlachan . From there, the peninsula extends 70 kilometers (with Knapdale about 90 kilometers) to the north. From the Cape you can see the northern coast of Antrim in Northern Ireland with the Rathlin Island . The rocky island of Ailsa Craig can be seen in the east of the cape.
Others
On the top there is the 1788 built Lighthouse Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse .
The cape became known around the world in 1977 when Paul McCartney and his band Wings released the song Mull of Kintyre .
The Mull of Kintyre Test was an unofficial rule of thumb of British film censorship that lasted until 2003. After that, an erection in which a penis formed a higher angle to the vertical than the Kintyre Peninsula (which looks like a penis on a map) to the Scottish mainland could not be seen in a film .
On June 2, 1994, a Royal Air Force (RAF) Chinook helicopter with the callsign F4J40 with four crew members and 25 passengers (including almost all of the UK's leading Northern Ireland experts) crashed at the Mull of Kintyre. There were no survivors. It was the RAF's worst flight accident in peacetime. After an RAF investigative committee had first stated in 1995 that it could not find a clear cause of the crash, two air marshals blamed the pilots who had flown too fast and too low in thick fog. This assessment subsequently led to controversy and calls to re-investigate the incident. In 2002, a parliamentary committee of inquiry contradicted the blame. In 2008 the then British Defense Secretary John Hutton stated that a new investigation had revealed that there had been a pilot error. Doubts arose when defects in the helicopter's on-board computer software became known. In July 2011, then-Defense Secretary Liam Fox apologized to the pilots' families for the blame and said there was no evidence that the pilots had acted negligently.
The Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse
Mull of Kintyre in the foreground, the North Channel ( Straits of Moyle ) and the coast of Northern Ireland in the background
Web links
- Kintyre official visitors site (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse at Northern Lighthouse Board
- ↑ Media: The censor goes public - Article in The Independent of June 8, 1999. Accessed March 13, 2009
- ↑ www.vnunet.com: WH Smith suffers from video nasties ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed March 13, 2009
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Campaigners want Chinook review . Accessed February 8, 2016.
- ↑ publications.parliament.uk: Chinook ZD 576 - Report . Accessed February 8, 2016.
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Dead Chinook pilots not cleared . Accessed February 8, 2016.
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Chinook crash “may have been caused by software faults” . Accessed February 8, 2016.
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Apology as Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash pilots cleared . Accessed February 8, 2016.
