Donald Campbell's Fatal Crash Wreckage Raised from the Depths - Bluebird Salvage Raw Footage (2001)

On 8 March 2001, ITN's cameras filmed the raising of the wreckage of Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 from Coniston Water in the Lake District. The hydroplane, in which the British speed record breaker Campbell died on 4 January 1967 while attempting to break the water speed record, had been lying at the bottom of Coniston for 34 years. The salvage operation was undertaken by the Bluebird Project, with Campbell's widow, Tonia Bern, watching from the shore.

Donald Campbell's Bluebird hydroplane returned to the Lake District on 9 March 2024, 57 years after its pilot was killed in a crash on Coniston Water. Its return comes after Bill Smith, the nTyneside engineer who rebuilty Bluebird after its recovery in 2001, handed the craft over to Coniston's Ruskin Museum following a legal battle.

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