Flying Accident Card

[NickFenton]

Can someone please help me understand a Flying Accident Card from a SFTS unit.

It has A:B:C, my case B. Not sure what this means.

W:R:M, mine states W - Wreck?

Lots of other comments but not sure they will have any real interest/meaning.

Regards,

Nick

[alclark]

The card that you have is an early style one.

The W:R:M is the damage category

From the RAF Museum list of abbreviations they were:
W = Write Off
R = Repair on site not possible
M(u) = Capable of being repaired on site by the unit
M(c) = Repairable but beyond the parent unit's capacity
There was also a Cat U which was undamaged.

The A:B:C was used as a very brief general cause identification. On the mid-1930s forms there was a box labelled Nature which had A, B or C.

Of the early war forms that I have all of the fatal accidents (all controlled flight into terrain) were A. The force landing / crash landing and the odd abandonment due to mechanical failure regardless of damage to aircraft seemed to be C

[NickFenton]

Thanks Alan. Just the job.

Nick