The minesweepers were based at Faslane

The results will now go to air accident investigators with the RAF.

A spokesman for RAF Kinloss said they would look at the images and may send them away for further investigation.

There has been speculation the aircraft may have been the wreckage of a Cessna flown out of Mull by former air ace Peter Gibb in 1975.

His body was found months later on Mull but the wreckage of his plane was next spotted in the Sound of Mull years later.

Bad weather

The investigation began after three Royal Navy minesweepers found the mystery aircraft on the sea bed off the west coast on Thursday evening.

The HMS Pembroke, HMS Penzance and HMS Inverness were around a mile off the coast of Oban when they made the find.

Underwater divers attempted to take video footage of the plane on Friday, but had to return to the surface because of poor underwater visibility and bad weather.

Still pictures and video shots of the wreckage have now been taken by a remote control vehicle and divers from HMS Pembroke, but visibility was still said to be poor.

The tale of the Peter Gibb is featured in a book titled Scottish Unsolved Mysteries, which describes how the airman's body was found but his aircraft never was.