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Kealy died of hypothermia on 1 February 1979 when he joined SAS candidates on a selection march in the Brecon Beacons in deteriorating weather conditions. He was found alive (but in poor condition) by his fellow soldier John Watts, who stayed with him and attempted to keep him warm. It was later acknowledged by the coroner that one of the major ...
11 February 1966 - XH536 Avro Vulcan B2 from Cottesmore crashed during low level exercises in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, all 5 crew killed. 29 June 1966 - XM716 Handley Page Victor B.2, aircraft broke up in flight during display over RAF Wyton, four killed. 1967
In June 2010, Alice Clarke, the daughter of SAS soldier Major Mike Kealy whose death is depicted in The Feather Men at the hands of The Clinic, spoke out, saying that her father had died during an endurance exercise in the Brecon Beacons in 1979.
A man was struck and killed by lighting on Sunday because he was carrying a selfie stick. He was in the Brecon Beacons during a thunder storm when the deadly bolt struck the millennial-crazed ...
Gareth Ratcliffe, from Hereford, the deputy chair of Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, is appointed MBE for charitable services to Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
Sir Ranulph Fiennes alleged in his book The Feather Men that Mike Kealy was murdered years later in the Brecon Beacons by an Arab militant cell. However, the circumstances of Kealy's death suggest that this is somewhat fanciful, as he was seen by other service personnel undergoing the same SAS endurance exercise only a few hours beforehand in ...
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The Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957, [15] the third of the three Welsh parks after Snowdonia in 1951 [16] and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in 1952. [17] It covers an area of 519 square miles (1,340 km 2), which is much larger than the Brecon Beacons range.