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AAF-SS 294
Reprinted at 2nd OTU

[[underlined]]Administrative Disintegration Report[[/underlined]]

^[[[ [[underlined]]Personal[[/underlined]] M - [[?]] ]]

Yesterday, when that 1/10 of a pilot, shown in Table II, was getting in his 89/100ths of an hour daily average flying time, as indicated in Table III, in his 2/3 of Plane C-46, shown in Chart II, the fuselage fell off at an average height above the station control tower, and left him temporarily up in the air. At this time he found that the engine of his particular plane was included in that third which is regularly grounded for parts and was not expected to be flyable for a period between 24 hours and 10 days. The pilot only had 9/10 of his parachute (Form 107), so decided to make use of the wings, which fortunately proved to be of the inverted gull type, and floated safely to ground, and promptly reported "airplane lost" under Column Q. Unfortunately, however, the fuselage fell on an unauthorized Second Lieutenant who was also unassigned and was walking around in a detached manner looking for a table which he hoped to sell the C.O. at a nice profit. Being in Squadron C, he was classified as being fully trained though having under 6 months' experience. It also struck 4/5 of a Basic who was classified under Column D but assigned for training to Line 77, Form 127, where he represented part of the Surplus included in Column E which is subject to Group Hq disposition. The Basic was a Propeller Specialist and claimed this fuselage work should not have fallen on him. There were only 1 2/3 hospital beds, and the Lieutenant was placed in one, which left 2/3 for the Basic. This hospital had an overall average of 60% of its Medical Supplies on hand, which included 1/8 of a splint and a half roll of bandage, as well as 3/5 of a Doctor, and the attention these two got was about 3/4 efficient, on the average.

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