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BOAT HORROR ON THE LOCH - Cadet boat tragedy; On exercise: Cadets and instructors on Thursday, a day before the accident that claimed one life Horror: The girl died after the Army boat capsized on Loch Carnan Loch Carnan 12.40pm yesterday a vessel carrying eight children and four instructors overturned Stornoway Girl airlifted to Western Isles Hospital by helicopter but pronounced dead on arrival.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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August 4, 2007
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Byline: Gavin Madeley, Jim McBeth
A TEENAGE girl drowned yesterday when a speedboat carrying Army cadetscapsized in gale-force winds.
Eight cadets and four Army instructors were thrown into the sea when theircraft overturned on Loch Carnan, off South Uist.
The terrified youngsters fought to release themselves from safety harnessesfastening them to the boat and swam to the shore.
But when the group reached dry land, they realised that Kaylee McIntosh, 14,from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, was missing.
A frantic search was launched but it was only when the high-speed boat wasraised from the seabed using a crane that the missing girl was found, stillstrapped to her ...