The crew of nine and six passengers took off in a Liberator Bomber from Prestwick on the 13th June, 1945. Ironically they were returning home after the war.

The  route that should have taken it over Stornoway, but we can only guess at why it came over the mainland.
A navigational error, instrumental or engine failure, all are possible. For whatever reason, to find themselves descending through thick cloud to attempt an emergency landing must have been fearsome.

It seems the aircraft struck the Top of Slioch and lost some bomb bay door parts. The descent continued until they broke through the cloud base over Gairloch. They circled once round the loch, possibly looking for a place to ditch, and may have decided on the sea loch itself. The aircraft was on the run in when they just failed to clear the rocky spurs by the Fairy Lochs. All crew and passengers were killed. Below is the wreckage of the crash site with the memorial plaque and part of the propeller against a rocky wall.