Perhaps you should ask athorities if you can take some wreckage back up the hills or would they class it as littering?there must be some stored away recovered pre 1986, this was one of the reasons some high level crash sites were cleaned up.

Much as i do like to see intact sites this is no always the case and you normally find wreckage spread across hundreds of yards so i guess one of the reasons for a clean up

Fighterace,With all due respect what makes you say the “authorities” cleared any sites on high ground? There is an often repeated rumour that in North Wales the Snowdonia National Park had a policy of removing wreckage in order to “tidy” or “clean up” the area,however there is no truth to this,SNP NEVER had a policy of clearing sites. Recovery groups have removed or instigated the removal of wreckage from a large number of sites in Snowdonia and of all the wreckage removed the majority has not survived. IF the wreckage removed by the recovery groups had survived the landowners in several cases would welcome it’s return,and no it would not be classed as littering!.

I have nothing against recovering wreckage if it is done for the right reasons,ie to preserve a piece of history for future generations and if it is done with due respect for everyone involved,the families of those who died in the crash,the landowners feelings etc.

What is the point in a recovery group or individual taking wreckage from a site only for it to sit in someone’s shed for a few years until it gets scrapped? it seems to me it’s a case of “must have” with no thought for the preservation of what is recovered.

Garry.